A BRIDE FUTURE:

Dvir and Shalhevet Cahana are Torah educators and leaders in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ​​

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Shalhevet has been teaching Torah for over a decade and is shifting her focus to teaching Taharat HaMishpacha to couples. Shalhevet Cahana is a certified Kallah teacher through The Eden Center based in Israel. 

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​Being a Kallah teacher is the coalescence of the things she most cherishes: teaching Torah and mitzvot, celebrating a life cycle event, and bringing meaning and purpose to life's most profound and important relationship -- all while empowering someone to be the best person they can be. ​

Shalhevet teaches Talmud and Halacha at Manhattan Day School and serves as Community Scholar at Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland, California. To date, she has taught Torah in over 60 synagogues and campuses across the United States. 

Shalhevet previously studied in Maimonides School, Migdal Oz, Stern College for Women and their advanced Gemara program called the Graduate Program for Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS). ​Dvir Cahana is in his 4th year of smicha rabbinical training.

Dvir follows a rich lineage of 9 generations of rabbis  -- Sanzer Chassidim from Tzfat.

​Dvir received Jewish Week’s "36 Under 36" award for launching The Amen Institute, an international space where professional artists and rabbis unite to inspire each other in the creation of Torah-art. Recently, The Amen Institute has launched programs for lay artists and high school students. ​

Himself a hip hop and rap artist, Dvir is the rabbinic educator for the Jewish rap collective Rappers and Rabbis. Under his guidance, the group has made a Hip Hop Haggadah and Dvir has led teen programs like Hip Hop Tefillah.

Dvir's 10 studio albums show a love of Yiddishkeit and wordplay (see here and here). Dvir has performed and competed on stages across North America including  Sababa Fest and rap battles like End of the Weak World MC Challenge. 

​Dvir previously learned in Hebrew Academy of Montreal, Concordia University, McGill University, and now Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.

​Dvir and Shalhevet can teach either individually or together. They can teach just the bride or the bride and groom together.