Sarah (Susan) Schneider is the founding director of A Still Small Voice, a correspondence school that provides weekly teachings in classic Jewish wisdom to subscribers around the world. She writes and teaches in close cooperation with leading rabbanim and outreach professionals in Jerusalem. Sarah has pursued the study and practice of religion, meditation, and comparative mysticism since the early seventies, and since 1981 has lived in Jerusalem and followed and orthodox path of Jewish Observance.

Sarah studied at Neve Yerushalayim and completed the advanced learning program there. She wrote and studied privately with Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, a noted teacher of Chassidut and Kabbala. She continues to consult him when questions arise in her writing, learning, and teaching. Since 1982 Sarah has been immersed in the study of Jewish texts and tradition.

Sarah has written Eating as Tikkun, Purim Bursts, and Kabbalistic Writings on the Nature of Masculine and Feminine, and has published three journal articles in B'Or HaTorah called "Evolution, Form, and Consciousness," "The Underside of Creative Expression," and "The Daughters of Tslafchad, Toward a Methodology of Attitude around Women's Issues." An expanded version of this last article appears in the anthology, "Torah of the Mothers," edited by Elper/Handelman, and published by Urim Press.

Ms. Schneider received her bachelor's degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Before immigrating to Israel she worked as laboratory researcher for Celestial Seasonings Herb Tea Company.

Sarah Schneider currently resides in Jerusalem's Old City and teaches privately to individuals or small groups seeking to work in depth and in a deeply personal way. She can be contacted through her A Still Small Voice website: www.astillsmallvoice.org or by email: smlvoice@netvision.net.il.