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About the Authors ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI, BETTER KNOWN AS REB ZALMAN, was born in Zholkiew, Poland, in 1924. His family fled the Nazi oppression in 1938 and finally landed in New York City in 1941. Descended from a distinguished family of Belzer Hasidim, he became a H.aBaD Hasid as a teenager while still living in Antwerp, Belgium. He was later ordained by H.aBaDLubavitch in 1947 and became one of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s first generation of outreach workers. He later earned his MA in psychology from Boston University in 1956 and a DHL from Hebrew Union College in 1968. He is professor emeritus of Psychology of Religion and Jewish Mysticism at Temple University and is World Wisdom Chair holder emeritus at Naropa University. Today he is primarily known as the Rebbe and father of the neo-Hasidic Jewish Renewal movement and is widely considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on Hasidism and Kabbalah. He is the author of Spiritual Intimacy: A Study of Counseling in Hasidism (1991), Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of the Hasidic Masters (2003), and Jewish with Feeling: Guide to a Meaningful Jewish Practice (2005). Reb Zalman currently lives in Boulder, Colorado. NETANEL MILES-YEPEZ was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1972, and is descended from a Sefardi family of crypto-Jews (anusim, “forced converts”), who trace their ancestry from Mexico all the way back to medieval Portugal and Spain. He studied History of Religions at Michigan State University and Contemplative Religion at Naropa University, specializing in comparative religion and nondual philosophies. He has been a personal student of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi since 1998 and co-founded the Sufi-Hasidic Inayati-Maimuni Tariqat with him in 2004, fusing the Sufi and Hasidic principles of spirituality and practice espoused by Rabbi Avraham Maimuni in 391 13th-century Egypt with the teachings of the Ba’al Shem Tov and Hazrat Inayat Khan. He collaborated with Reb Zalman on Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of the Hasidic Masters (2003) and is the editor of The Common Heart: An Experience of Interreligious Dialogue (2006). He lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is a spiritual counselor, writer, and painter of religious icons. 392 A HEART AFIRE ...

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