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Kohenet Annie Matan

Kohenet Annie Matan is an ordained Hebrew Priestess, with a thriving business that offers Spiritual Guidance, Super-Power Mentorship, and Facilitation of Life-cycle rituals and Sacred Spaces.

A Jewish, Queer, Polyam single Mama, Annie is passionate about supporting people of all genders to feel seen, heard, and held as their whole selves in all spaces in their lives.

Her bespoke holy day unservices, weddings, baby welcomings, funerals and other life cycle transition rituals honour the realities of Interfaith, Queer and Polyam folks by weaving together their families’ and ancestral traditions with their authentic, contemporary, feminist values.

In her Spiritual Guidance sessions and Red Tent circles, Annie offers mentorship and facilitates supportive conversations on intuitive gifts, transitions, sex and our intimate relationships with our bodies, ourselves and our partners.

Annie is the founder of Matanot Lev | Gifts of the Heart, Toronto’s feminist, post-halakhic Jewish community.

A multi-media artist, she expresses spirituality and the sacred feminine through song, poetry, sculpture, painting, and crochet.

Annie loves studying Jewish texts, especially liturgy and Tanakh through a feminist, queer lens that reveals, unravels, and blesses the beautiful and challenging offerings within.

She earned her BA in Humanities through the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University, a Certificate in Experiential Education at Pardes, and studied for two years in the ALEPH Rabbinic Ordination Program.