Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi has become the great sage of a worldwide movement of Jewish renewal. He holds the World Wisdom Seat at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, has published more than 150 articles and monographs on Jewish spiritual life, and has translated many Hassidic and Kabbalistic texts. He lives and teaches in Boulder. Joel Segel lived and studied in Israel for 17 years. He is a former editor at Shambhala Publications.