Rabbi Marcia Prager is a vibrant Jewish Renewal rabbi, teacher, storyteller, artist and therapist living and working in the Mt. Airy community of Philadelphia. A graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, she also holds the personal smicha (rabbinic ordination) of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the visionary rebbe of the Jewish Renewal Movement, with whom she has continued to work closely.

She serves as rabbi of the Philadelphia P'nai Or Jewish Renewal Community, the innovative Jewish congregation founded by Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi in 1973.

She is the creator of the unique P'nai Or Siddurim for Shabbat and other innovative approaches to prayer and liturgy. Her work as a teacher of Jewish spiritual practice includes developing and co-directing DLTI, the Davvenen Leadership Training Institute at Elat Chayyim/Isabella Friedman Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center. She and her husband Hazzan Jack Kessler travel widely to teach in an array of Jewish and interfaith settings.

Her popular book, The Path of Blessing (Bell Tower, '98; Jewish Lights, '03) is an exploration of the profound spiritual wisdom that lies in the Jewish practice of blessing, and a primer of Jewish mystical literacy.