Personal consultations for women and couples seeking halachic guidance along their fertility journey
To request an initial consultation with a Yoetzet Halacha Fertility Counselor, please complete this form. All information is kept strictly secure and confidential.
Consultations are offered free of charge, thanks to the generous support of our donors. A suggested contribution of 150 NIS per consultation helps sustain this service, though any amount is appreciated. Donate here.
Yoatzot Halacha Fertility Counselors, in collaboration with the Keren Gefen Fertility Organization, have completed advanced training in the halachic, medical, and emotional aspects of fertility. Their guidance is provided under the supervision of Nishmat’s rabbanim, with whom they consult as needed for rabbinic rulings.
We address the following topics:
Fertility Diagnosis, Sperm Analysis, Ovulation Tracking, Ovulation before Immersion, Artificial Insemination, Fertility Preservation, IUI, IVF, Egg Retrieval & Transfer, Pre-implantation Genetic Testing, Pregnancy Loss, Surrogacy, Donor Sperm, and more…
Director
Founder & Director of Keren Gefen and the Hadassah Rimon Mind-Body Fertility Center
Clinical director at Keren Gefen and The Training Center for Mind-Body skills
Senior staff specialist at Shaare Zedek Hospital’s IVF unit and at fertility clinics in Israel
“You were always available and wanted to help with infinite sensitivity, which we needed. Hope you know how significant these moments were for us.”
The Yoetzet Halacha was ready to pick me up and listen while also giving me the information I needed. I would definitely come first to a fertility counselor from Nishmat in the future.
(Name withheld)
My Yoetzet Halacha Fertility Counselor explained to me the different solutions that lay before me in this journey and at this important stage of my life I did not feel alone. “
(Name withheld)
I noticed that my cycle was now much shorter and I might be ovulating before I got to the mikveh. The Yoetzet Halacha Fertility Counselor explained how I could get to the mikveh as soon as possible.
(Name withheld)
When we got married, we knew we were going to have to do PGD because we were both carriers of the Cystic Fibrosis gene. I met with a Yoetzet Halacha Fertility Counselor who explained the medical procedures as well as the halachic ramifications.
(Name withheld)
Every question we had was addressed, and anything halacha-related was carefully answered or referred to the next level. I felt that I had someone holding my hand through a long and otherwise stressful process.
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