Gilla Nissan
Teacher • Author • Speaker
A native of Israel, Gilla graduated from Tel-Aviv University. She moved to LA where she graduated from Yeshiva University and American Jewish University. She worked as a Judaic studies teacher in schools and institutions and developed a course on the spirituality of the Hebrew language.
Gilla is a long time follower and instructor of the Gurdjieff Work. She acknowledges Metivta’s founder, Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man, as her Jewish mysticism teacher and mentor. Gilla uses different modalities of meditation, visualization and guided imagery. She has been a capturing speaker on spirituality and the meaning of life as well as a leader of rituals and ceremonies in the U.S and abroad.
Gilla Nissan’s new book, Meditations with the Hebrew Letters: A Guide for the Modern Seeker, is the culmination of thirty six years of spiritual work. In its own quick, light, yet deep and transformative way, it conveys a universal message to both the personal soul and the collective soul.
Book Endorsements
– Rabbi Jonathon Omer-Man, Editor of Encyclopedia Judaica, and advisor to the Dalai Lama.
“Gilla Nissan is both an explorer and a discoverer. With her work on the Hebrew letters, she is a courageous pioneer, entering and mapping realms others rarely visit, there to encounter that which has been eternally present. We are grateful that she has shared with us her insights and her vision.”
– Daniel Matt author, The Essential Kabbalah, God and the Big Bang, and the multi-volume annotated translation, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition
“According to Kabbalah, God created the world through the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. ” Now, Gilla Nissan has emulated this divine model. By discovering and exploring the hidden aspects of these same twenty-two letters, she enables each of us to create new worlds of meaning and imagination. Open this book and you will be amazed, inspired, and transformed.”
– Deena Metzger writer, Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing, and A Rain of Night Birds.
“The Holy Letters. Creation through shape, sound and vibration. The breath of imagination. The cosmic dance. The Letters embodied in the heart. Gilla Nissan’s gift. Come, play with her.”