About Tzaddi

The Church of Tzaddi

Founded in 1964 in the U.S. state of California, the Church of Tzaddi (pronounced: ZA-dee or TZA-dee or TSAH-dee ) is an interspiritual metaphysical organization dedicated to supporting spiritual growth and development and embodying the “open door of love.”

Our understanding and experience of God/Goddess/Source/Spirit/Great Mystery is that of a loving, infinite, co-creative presence that answers to many different names and can be found in many different spiritual and religious traditions. We believe that one’s spiritual path is a progression toward fuller realization, actualization, and expression of our divinity and our greatest potential.

We welcome and embrace people from a diversity of backgrounds and spiritual / religious beliefs and practices as long as they are in fundamental alignment with the 21 Principles laid down by our founders to guide us.

We offer many public and private, physical and virtual, free and paid ways to participate in our community ranging from phone conferences and online webinars to in-person reflection services, prayer circles, meditations, plus formal classes and workshops. Our mission is to foster community in spiritual exploration, to offer a variety of spiritual tools to enhance personal growth and development, deepen connection with the Divine, and to help prepare those called to a more formal spiritual vocation to more fully live that calling in the world through ordination. This vocation could be in spiritual leadership, in spiritual healing or counseling, or in any other path of ministry.

Our Founding

The Church of Tzaddi was founded by Bishop Amy Kees and her daughter, Bishop Dorothe Blackmere, who both passed into Spirit in 2012. The legal name of our organization is The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi. It was founded in California on June 23, 1964.

Founding Bishop Amy was a Bible scholar and a student of many esoteric traditions. She studied with the Universal Church of the Master, the International Order of St. Luke the Physician, and she attended seminary with Unity Church. A few weeks prior to graduation as a Unity minister, Spirit guided Bishop Amy to start her own church, which became Tzaddi.

As she was praying, reading, and meditating on what to call the organization that Spirit had guided her to create, she looked down and saw that the Hebrew letter “T” or Tzaddi was the heading on a Bible verse open in front of her.

Tzaddi (also spelled Tzadi or Tsade) is the 18th letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Scholars feel it represents “righteousness” or a righteous person (tzaddik or tzadik).

According to Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, the most special thing about a tzaddik is that he/she/they really are the most human of human beings. “A tzaddik is one in whom we see our true selves, who allows us to realize that each one of us is essentially divine. And so, just by being there, but especially by our bonding with them, they connect us to the God who breathes within each one of us.”

Founding Bishop Amy named the church Tzaddi because it reflected the vibration of the organization she was creating. She felt that we are all capable of being correct and just, and we are all called to the task of spiritual development so we can hold and transmit the light and love of Spirit for the benefit of others and for our own maturation and growth.

Learn more about the Tzaddi name and its link to the church here. Learn how Tzaddi fits into world spiritual traditions/lineages and follows the pattern of personal revelations here.

Our Philosophy

is reflected in the inspirational message from one of our ministers. You can also find it formally codified in

Our 21 Principles: These were set down by Amy Kees and Dorothe Blackmere, the founders of Tzaddi, both of whom passed into spirit in 2012
Our metaphysical approach
Our commitment to the office of interspiritual clergy in the New Age
Our understanding of emergent truth
Our ethics code

Rev. Nancy Reuben, M.D. | September 2014 healing transmission

The theme of today’s healing is: “The Human Body and the Limitless Self.”

Spread out across time and space, the limitless self makes itself available to you in moments when you least expect it. A slight shift in awareness, perception or knowing will bring you in contact with the part of you that is identical in vibration with the universal self, the infinite field of consciousness.

Although your limitless self is not bound by the confines of your physicality, it is realized and expressed though the vehicle of your human body.

You may walk the earth in this body hoping for joy, health, and fulfillment. Yet, you are likely to encounter some pain, struggle, and suffering which are also a part of your human experience.

Your mental, emotional, and physical bodies are designed to embrace these polarities. Fortunately, they are also designed to hold the light of pure consciousness within the fabric of their structures. So, if your path in this lifetime involves a yearning to know your true self and a longing for personal enlightenment, it is important to know that you do not have to search outside of your human body to find it.

You need your mind to translate pure consciousness into conscious awareness. You need your emotions so you can feel your way to the truth. And you need your physical body to provide a container for consciousness on the earth.

The universe asks that you not try to eradicate the parts of you that are uncomfortable and challenging, because they are a part of the package that is your humanness. Your body is simply waiting for you to ‘realize’ the presence of Divinity within all of its aspects.

You have come to Earth to be resilient, to manage all of the obstacles and challenges on your path, while allowing and participating in the flow of life in every moment.