{{tone|date=October 2017}} '''Hannah Nathans''' (born 1944) is an author and the rabbi of the [[Open Jewish Congregation Klal Israel|Open Jewish Congregation Klal]] Israel in [[Delft]].
==Life== Nathans was born in 1944 in [[Amsterdam]], Netherlands. Hannah is of [[Jews|Jewish]] [[Patrilineal]] descent.
Nathans worked for the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] government as a policymaker, trainer, and consultant from 1970 to 1985. In 1989, after several years working as a senior consultant in a training and consulting firm, she started her own business, named Nathan's Consultancy. She was one of the first to introduce the [[Enneagram of Personality|Enneagram]] in the Netherlands and would later write a book on the subject.<ref>{{cite book|title=Enneagram at Work: Towards Personal Mastery and Social Intelligence|first=Hannah|last=Nathans|date=1 April 2005|publisher=Cyan Communications|isbn=1904879012}}</ref>
In 2005, Nathans completed training as a Jewish Spiritual Director at Lev Shomea, Institute for Jewish Spiritual Direction. In 2007, Nathan's Consultancy became part of Rijnconsult, and Nathans founded HaMakor, Centre for Jewish Spirituality.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hamakor.nl/ |title=Home |website=hamakor.nl}}</ref> Nathans earned a masters in [[Hebrew language]] and culture at the [[University of Amsterdam]]. She studied to become a rabbi with [[Jewish Renewal|Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aleph.org/ordinations|title=Four Paths to Ordination - Aleph|website=aleph.org}}</ref> a [[Neo-Hasidism|neo-hasidic]] movement founded by Rabbi [[Zalman Schachter-Shalomi]], where she received her [[Semikhah|Semikha]] in January 2014.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
At the beginning of 2012, she worked as a rabbi in the congregation [[Beit Ha'Chidush|Beit ha’Chidush]] (House of Renewal), affiliated with Liberal Judaism of UK.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
In 2016, she became the rabbi of the [[Open Jewish Congregation Klal Israel]] in Delft,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.klal-Israel.nl/ |title=Home |website=klal-Israel.nl}}</ref> is a [[Reconstructionist Judaism|Reconstructionist]] community with an outreach orientation where those with Jewish ancestry or interest in Judaism are welcome.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
==Works== * ''Adviseren als tweede beroep, resultaat bereiken als adviseur'' (1991/1995/2005/2015) (English: ''Consulting as second profession''){{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} * ''Werken met het Enneagram, naar persoonlijk meesterschap en sociale intelligentie'' (Scriptum 2000) (English: ''The enneagram at work''){{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} * ''Typisch ik, typisch jij; het enneagram, een handleiding bij mensen'' (Scriptum 2005) (English: ''Typically me, typically you; the enneagram a manual for people''){{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} * ''Een wortel die alsem en gal voortbrengt; het 20e eeuwse Chassidisme van Shalom Noach Berezovsky'' (2011) (English: ''A root oozing wormwood and gal; the 20th century Hasidism of Shalom Noach Berezovsky''){{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} * ''Werkboek Adviseren als tweede beroep'' (Kluwer 2012, mede-auteurs Marijke Broekhuijsen, Catalina Auer, Paul Meijer) (English: ''Work book Consulting as second profession''){{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} * ''Can someone in the process of conversion serve as shali’ach tzibbur? in R.Daniel Siegel, Renewing ger toshav; opening the gates that more may enter to praise God'' (2017){{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
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