Kohenet Elana Brody is an acclaimed singer-songwriter, song leader, and Hebrew Priestess rooted in rural Appalachia, with a decade of Jewish life and leadership in New York City. Elana creates ritual spaces and musical experiences that move the soul with a deep love for the Divine and Mother Earth that resources all of her work.

Elana attended Berklee College of Music, studying vocal performance and songwriting. She was “discovered” a few years after her time at Berklee by Rabbi Shir Yaakov in 2014, who invited Elana to showcase her voice’s transformative powers for the Yom Kippur Kol Nidre prayer at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center.

Elana discovered her own gift for sacred devotion there as well. She went on to spend the last ten years developing her craft as a prayer leader and Shliach Tzibur, collaborating and offering this gift all over the country in different alternative Jewish spaces. She is an ordained Hebrew Priestess and has worked alongside master healers and Jewish ritualists, such as Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Rabbi David Ingber, Rabbi Yosef Goldman, Chazan Basya Schecter, Rabbi Jill Hammer, Nava Tehila's Yoel Sykes and more.

She brings her 20 years of songwriting and performance experience into a focused, flowing channel of Divine connection and skillful prayer leading in Jewish renewal and alternative Jewish spaces. Elana brings a strong “Kohenet” flavorto her offerings, with a rich amount of chanting and singalong components. In her services, Elana includes the Divine Feminine and feminine Hebrew language, and raises up the feminine force of the universe as much as possible, while respecting and celebrating the more traditional aspects of G-d, in all their multiplicity and non-binary forms. As she is influenced by Chassidic teachers and Kabalistic teachings, a great faith, mysticism, and joy permeates what Elana offers, but she transforms it into an expression of the NOW - accessible even to the most assimilated, and non-Hebrew language familiar, of us!

Elana leads healing, prayer, and communal song gatherings, and serves as a teacher of voice and creative empowerment. In addition, Elana serves as the visionary prayer leader and founder of a blossoming ritual community for earth-based Judaism in Asheville, NC.

Elana is available to be hired as a musician for Jewish services, simchas, and events; and is comfortable singing in Yiddish, Hebrew and English.

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