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Kolton will be speaking about her life, the Feminine Divine and her vision for a loving society.
Rabbi Tamara Kolton Ph.D., an independent rabbi, psychologist, feminine mythologist and author of Oranges for Eve: My Brave, Beautiful, Badass Journey to the Feminine Divine, has been chosen to speak at TedxDetroit this Wednesday.

Rabbi Tamara Kolton can pinpoint the moment, down to the minute, when she felt it, this energy she couldn’t put a name on until later.
It was July 21, 2012 at 10:30 p.m. when Kolton – then the rabbi at Birmingham Temple – was in the midst of a terrible board meeting.
She felt what she would later call Eve energy. Yes, the Eve with the garden and apple. Read here

In this interview, Rabbi Tamara Kolton, Ph.D., author of Oranges for Eve, shares insights on her book and the process of writing it.

Rakia Sky Beimel and Rabbi Tamara Kolton explore their different experiences celebrating the feminine divine.
For Rakia Sky Beimel, working the land has religious significance. When she and her ex-husband started Kibbutz Detropia in northwest Detroit five years ago, they saw it as a spiritual expression of their Judaism. Read here

In my early twenties, I began to officiate weddings and right before the ceremony was about to begin, I would be stricken with terrible stomach cramps. The kind that, when in public, you have to grind your back teeth in order to get through.
One particular day, I remember being in the bathroom just when the processional music began. Read here

Oranges for Eve: My Brave, Beautiful, Badass Journey to the Feminine Divine is a manifesto of feminine light, truth & POWER.
Because…
the time has come for women to stop eating the poisonous bitter apples of
old patriarchal lies!
Rabbi Tamara Kolton was the senior rabbi at an unusual atheistic temple. But there came a time when she was keeping a secret.
This is a story of self-discovery and the deep healing that every woman needs in her life. It is also the story of the most misunderstood woman in history: Eve.
Yes, Eve of the garden, the snake and the damn apple.
We are taught that Eve was a sinner. But that is not true. Eve is the Mother of Spiritual Bravery.
For thousands of years, women have been shamed and silenced. But we are waking up as a collective and refusing to be silent anymore.
*What do you truly yearn for deep down in your gut?
*What would you do if you had the audacity to act on your own behalf?
Your yearnings, your urges to transform your life and take those big, even terrifying leaps, actually are a call to bravery and spiritual fulfillment from your true spiritual mother, the radical, beautiful, Eve. We are going to answer the call.
In this book, Rabbi Tamara Kolton will guide you on a healing journey in which you will tenderly be asked to love your shame and fear away and step onto a path of spiritual healing and bravery.
Through magnificent exercises and gorgeous memoir, you will:
- Journey deep inside the myth of the Garden of Eden and experience Eve for who she REALLY is.
- Discover God in the feminine and how this fierce, feminine and nourishing energy can truly transform your life and heal our world.
- Connect with feminine LIGHT, TRUTH & POWER!
Because Eve was no sinner.
Eve was a spiritual badass.
You can be too.
This book will show you how.
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About Rabbi Tamara
Rabbi Tamara Kolton Ph.D. is an independent rabbi, psychologist, author and feminine mythologist. As a prominent rabbi in Michigan, she is known for her warm, inspirational style and deep capacity to help people heal.
For over 20 years, she has shared life’s greatest joy and deepest sorrow with thousands of people. She officiates weddings locally and nationally, bringing warmth, dynamism and inclusivity to every ceremony. Closest to her heart is her work with families as she tenderly and skillfully conducts funerals and offers comfort to those enduring loss.
Rabbi Kolton completed her undergraduate degree in Jerusalem from Hebrew University and she is a fluent Hebrew speaker. Her master’s degree is in clinical psychology. She is a Ph.D. and wrote her dissertation on The Experience of Being a Woman Rabbi.
In 1999, she was the first person to be ordained a humanistic rabbi, an achievement recognized by The New York Times. She is included in the historical timeline of women rabbis.
Tamara grew up in a Jewish congregation “without God” and was mentored by Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, a radical and renowned rabbi. Ultimately, she became his successor and the senior rabbi at the very congregation where she grew up.
In 2012, she felt an intense spiritual yearning to discover God for herself and set out on a brave quest.
In searching for “Him,” she found “Her.”
Rabbi Kolton is most passionate about the Feminine Divine and how to bring Her energy to a world in desperate need of feminine truth, light and power. She asks us to see Eve, of the bible, as a heroine and an unabashed powerhouse of beauty and bravery.
She asks us to see ourselves that way too.
Tamara is married to her Israeli-born husband and the mother of two teenagers. They live in Birmingham, Michigan with their Havanese dog, Finley.
Sample Speaking Points and Workshop Description
Oranges For Eve: Tapping Into The Bountiful, Beautiful, and Badass Energy Of The Feminine Divine
*What do you truly yearn for deep down in your gut?
*What would you do if you had the audacity to act on your own behalf?
*Who really is Eve, of the bible, the garden, and the apple, and how will she help you?
Your yearnings, your urges to transform your life and take those big, terrifying leaps are actually a call to bravery and spiritual fulfillment from your true spiritual mother, the radical, beautiful, badass, Eve. In this workshop, we are going to answer the call!
Rabbi Tamara Kolton will guide you on a healing journey in which you will tenderly be asked to love your shame and fear away and step onto a path of spiritual healing and bravery.
In the sacred, nourishing space of the workshop you will:
- Journey deep into the myth of the Garden of Eden and experience Eve for who
she REALLY is. - Learn the skill of “flipping the story” to ignite your power.
- Identify and embrace your vulnerability as sacred portals that give you immediate access to Eve.
- Feel surges of joy and bliss that fill you with a new, soulful sense of confidence and purpose and spur you to action. “I can do it!” “I’ve got this!”
- Experience and understand God in the feminine and how this fierce, feminine, and nourishing energy- can truly transform your life.
- Learn to practice the three key principles of Spiritual Disobedience, Spiritual Bravery, and Exponential Returns.
- Takeaway tools and nourishing practices to connect to Eve’s Energy.
Tamara will frame this workshop with her own flawed, human, and at times humorous, quest to know God and heal herself by reconnecting to Eve.
Your Divine mother is calling you. Answer the call!
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