Gefen, Nan Fink

Nan Fink Gefen, PhD, is a teacher of Jewish meditation, a writer and an editor. She has taught Jewish meditation to hundreds of students around the country. For six years, she directed a program to train Jewish meditation teachers at Chochmat HaLev, a center of Jewish meditation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She is a contributor to "Meditation from the Heart of Judaism: Today's Teachers Share Their Practices, Techniques, and Faith" (Jewish Lights), and author of "Stranger in the Midst: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery" (Basic Books). She cofounded "Tikkun" magazine in 1985, and she is the co...