Sheila Peltz Weinberg was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Collegeand has served as an educator, activist, liturgist, and congregational rabbi. She hashelped introduce meditation into the Jewish world as a form that can enliven andilluminate Jewish practice. She is a founder and outreach director of the Institutefor Jewish Spirituality and the author of Surprisingly Happy: An AtypicalReligious Memoir.