Boulder’s rabbi-priestess

RABBI SARAH Bracha Gershuny is a whirlwind attached to a serene center. Like a thoughtful powder keg, excited words overlap without obscuring the meaning. Gershuny became the spiritual leader at Boulder’s Nevei Kodesh, which began in 1993 and now has a membership of 135 households, in 2014. The Jewish renewal congregation was about to celebrate the High Holidays. “I was waiting for my visa to come through,” she says with a breathless British accent. “It got very intense. At the end, [founding rabbi] Tirzah Firestone officiated. This year I ramped up.” Emailed photographs reveal a Botticelli countenance more akin to an ethereal goddess than a flesh-and-blood rabbi. Nevei Kodesh’s leader seems to embody both. Gershuny, who turns 34 this month, was born and raised as a […]