Melanie Landau

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Apr 27, 2022, 9:28 PM

How the hurt of the Holocaust lives on

It is Erev Yom HaShoah. The eve of Holocaust commemoration day and I’m on the way to my training in couples and family therapy. And I was thinking about how the Holocaust lives on in our family systems, in Israel, ...

Apr 15, 2022, 1:32 PM

Leaving Slavery: The Freedom of a New Response

When we are a slave we don’t have agency or autonomy over our lives. It is hard to access our own capacity as creators. In any given situation when we have our full intelligence available to us there is a...

Sep 6, 2021, 11:17 AM

HaYom Harat Ha’olam — The Birthday of the World

I saw rays of sun peeking through the mist over a valley of vineyards. I smelt figs. I saw berries and wild apples. I saw a wild boar. I picked up a beautiful spike from a local porcupine. I...

Apr 8, 2021, 12:07 AM

Inclusion, first families and unbearable loss

I have had the privilege to learn Family and Systemic Constellations. It is a powerful modality, that is not really only a modality, but rather a technology that we can utilize that enables us to tap in to the...

Dec 22, 2020, 11:23 PM

Hidden of the Already Hidden: Relational Effects of Surviving Catastrophe

I grew up in Melbourne, Australia among the largest Holocaust survivor community outside of Israel. Sitting around with friends from Mt Scopus College, at the time, and maybe still, the largest Jewish day school in the Southern Hemisphere. My...

Dec 13, 2020, 12:26 PM

Hanukah, Gratitude & Real Life Effects for 2 or 3 or 4 Gen Survivors

It is the nature of things for humans to be born and to die. To face our mortality can enable us to live life more fully and to take risks. It can also be a source of fear and...

Sep 27, 2020, 3:32 PM

Yom Kippur: The Mystery and Sacredness of Life

Nineteen years ago today I gave birth to my first child. I was in Leader minyan and as our tradition was then we passed the Sefer Torah around to every single person in the large hall. We were singing...

Jul 26, 2020, 6:53 PM

The month of Av: From grief to love

Hands make a heart. (iStock)

This Hebrew month tosses our emotions through the ringer, but in pushing us to grieve, it also opens the way for the regenerative love that is to come

Apr 20, 2020, 7:03 PM

Yom HaShoah – Honoring our ancestors through our aliveness

What do you say when your child asks what a gas chamber is? I had hoped to ease my children into the family history, and keep away from the 'victim narrative'

Oct 3, 2019, 6:07 PM

To Own Inherited Fear: Responsible Jewish Leaders

This morning I heard a very sad thing that a home and restaurant in the Makhrour area in Beit Jala was demolished. This hit me hard. It is so beautiful there. I felt my system close because the grief...

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About Me

Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Rabba Dr Melanie Landau has 20 years of experience in guiding individuals and groups in transformative processes.and cultivating the sacred. She is committed to the creativity and vitality of a living breathing expansive Torah. She is a couples therapist, empowerment coach and group facilitator. She can be reached on: melanielandau18@gmail.com