Noam Lerman is in their final year of rabbinical school at Hebrew College, and is currently the rabbinic intern at Nehar Shalom in Jamaica Plain, MA. They believe in cultivating singing as a spiritual and meditative practice –- one that can be a non-hierarchical collective experience for people to create intentional sacred space with their voices. They play drum, fingerstyle guitar, mandolin, jawharp, and oud, and they sing nigunim, folk songs, and laments. Noam started ‘Der Tekhines Proyekt’, where new melodies are paired with excerpts of old Yiddish prayers called tekhines written by women and gender-non-conforming people, so that communities can revive them into use today. Noam is a circle keeper in Restorative Practices. They have acted as a chaplain for elders and incarcerated and previously incarcerated individuals fighting for survival and healing. In the steps of their ancestors, Noam is dedicated to working for a world without prisons and borders! One of their favorite things to do is to listen, speak, and laugh with strangers on the train or street.