The editor, Netanel Miles-Yepez is the co-author with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi of two critically acclaimed commentaries on Hasidic spirituality, A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters (2009) and A Hidden Light: Stories and Teachings of Early Habad and Bratzlav Hasidism (2011). He teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Naropa University.