Rabbi Pamela Wax is the Spiritual Care Coordinator at Westchester Jewish Community Services in White Plains, NY where she runs the WJCS Jewish Spiritual Healing Center, offering spiritual journeying opportunities for writers, meditators, and seekers; several Mussar groups (including one for rabbis and cantors); spiritual direction; and pastoral counselling (through a Mussar lens). She has studied and practiced Mussar for close to twenty years with her chevruta partner Rabbi Helen Cohn, has taught and written for the Mussar Institute and as a scholar-in-residence at congregations throughout the United States. She was the co-author, with Rabbi Marc Margolius, of Pitchei haLevavot, a weekly online Mussar Torah commentary offered by the Institute for Jewish Spirituality in 2015-2016 and is the author of a teen Mussar curriculum through Chai Mitzvah. Her writings have been published in numerous books and periodicals, including Westchester Jewish Life and The Westchester Jewish Chronicle, The Women’s Torah Commentary and The Women’s Haftarah Commentary (both edited by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein), Three Times Chai: 54 Rabbis Tell Their Favorite Stories (edited by Laney Katz Becker), Living Torah (edited by Elaine Rose Glickman), The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic (edited by Mary L. Zamore), Voices of Torah (edited by Sonja J. Pilz), and most recently in The Mussar Torah Commentary (edited by Barry Block). Rabbi Wax is a poet, an avid swimmer, a passionate reproductive rights and racial justice advocate, and a devoted aunt. She lives in the Bronx, NY and North Adams, MA with her husband Chaim Bronstein, a recovering Lubavitcher.