Healing Well of Miriam

Miriam Leah Ben-Yaacov has been writing and teaching Torah for many years. Miriam Leah was born in the state of Washington into a Southern Baptist family. Her father was in the US Army until 1965, when he went into the ministry and began pastoring churches. The family lived in many places as she grew up.

Within the church Miriam Leah taught “Old Testament,” including the Prophets’ promises to Israel for ingathering to the Land and Redemption for the world. Having lived in Germany for so many of her formative years, she was particularly influenced by the gravity of the Holocaust. In 1985 she became involved in the Soviet Jewry movement. Inspired by the challenge to understand the Jewish roots of Christianity, Miriam Leah studied books on Jewish history and practice of Judaism, which greatly affected her teaching and writing. In 1988, she converted to Orthodox Judaism.

In July of 1990, Miriam Leah and her family moved to Israel. During the thirteen years there, they lived in various communities in Judea. Her older daughter, Amira, became a Hebrew teacher and the younger, Yael, served in the Israeli army. Miriam Leah studied Torah in the Jerusalem area and Safed with various teachers.

In the year 2001 she began traveling in Asia (India, Thailand, and Cambodia) and the US on what she calls her spiritual journey. Meeting people of other cultures, she came to a new view of the Noahide Covenant (based on the Seven Universal Laws of the Torah that apply to the non-Jewish nations). Encountering Israelis traveling after the army, she came to see the journey of the secular Jew, searching for his Jewish identity. The idea of the Redemption took on a new dimension.

She returned to the United States at the end of 2003, living for a while in California, Texas, Oklahoma with her aging parents, and Colorado. She worked with the Vendyl Jones Research Institutes, taught in Virtual Yeshiva online school in the Noah Chat room. She taught classes and served as the Educational Director for Noahide Nations from its inception. She assisted in the editing of R. Joel David Bakst’s books: Vol. I & II of The Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna and Beyond Kabbalah: The Teachings that Cannot be Taught.  More recently she is working with R. David Katz and R. Chaim Clorfene in the development of a new genre of books for Ger Toshav.  In 2016 she edited R. David Katz’s Soul Mazal: In the Beginning, the first of the five volume series concerning the ancient, universal teachings of  Shem ben Noah, now available on Amazon.com.

Miriam Leah’s Torah classes focus on prayer and repentance necessary for complete healing—transformation of the soul. While living in Israel during the 1990s, she became a practitioner of an energy healing method called Shefa (a Hebrew word meaning “abundance” or “radiance”), which is becoming increasingly well-known and popular in Israel and the world. (Shefa is similar to the more commonly known method of Reiki, however, it is completely based on Torah methods.) As she progressed in the work, she began developing a new method, integrating Shefa with more intuitive esoteric understanding. In line with the teaching of the Gaon of Vilna concerning the footsteps of Redemption, Miriam Leah focuses on scientific application of Torah theories and methods to bring about healing on the individual and cosmic levels.

contact:
wellofmiriam@gmail.com