# Hannah Nathans

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**Hannah Nathans** (born 1944) is an author and the rabbi of the [Open Jewish Congregation Klal](/source/Open_Jewish_Congregation_Klal_Israel) Israel in [Delft](/source/Delft).

## Life

Nathans was born in 1944 in [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam), Netherlands. Hannah is of [Jewish](/source/Jews) [Patrilineal](/source/Patrilineal) descent.

Nathans worked for the [Dutch](/source/Netherlands) 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](/source/Enneagram_of_Personality) in the Netherlands and would later write a book on the subject.[1]

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.[2] Nathans earned a masters in [Hebrew language](/source/Hebrew_language) and culture at the [University of Amsterdam](/source/University_of_Amsterdam). She studied to become a rabbi with [Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal](/source/Jewish_Renewal),[3] a [neo-hasidic](/source/Neo-Hasidism) movement founded by Rabbi [Zalman Schachter-Shalomi](/source/Zalman_Schachter-Shalomi), where she received her [Semikha](/source/Semikhah) in January 2014.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

At the beginning of 2012, she worked as a rabbi in the congregation [Beit ha’Chidush](/source/Beit_Ha'Chidush) (House of Renewal), affiliated with Liberal Judaism of UK.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

In 2016, she became the rabbi of the [Open Jewish Congregation Klal Israel](/source/Open_Jewish_Congregation_Klal_Israel) in Delft,[4] is a [Reconstructionist](/source/Reconstructionist_Judaism) community with an outreach orientation where those with Jewish ancestry or interest in Judaism are welcome.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Works

- *Adviseren als tweede beroep, resultaat bereiken als adviseur* (1991/1995/2005/2015) (English: *Consulting as second profession*)[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

- *Werken met het Enneagram, naar persoonlijk meesterschap en sociale intelligentie* (Scriptum 2000) (English: *The enneagram at work*)[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

- *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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

- *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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

- *Werkboek Adviseren als tweede beroep* (Kluwer 2012, mede-auteurs Marijke Broekhuijsen, Catalina Auer, Paul Meijer) (English: *Work book Consulting as second profession*)[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

- *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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Nathans, Hannah (1 April 2005). *Enneagram at Work: Towards Personal Mastery and Social Intelligence*. Cyan Communications. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1904879012](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1904879012).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Home"](http://www.hamakor.nl/). *hamakor.nl*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Four Paths to Ordination - Aleph"](https://aleph.org/ordinations). *aleph.org*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Home"](http://www.klal-Israel.nl/). *klal-Israel.nl*.

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