Eyal Rivlin was born in Israel and has a Master's Degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder Colorado, where he inspires joy through performing, teaching and facilitating musical events. His compositions and performances can be heard on Bat Kol's PrayerSongs, and along with Danya Uriel on their CD, Coming Home. Netanel Miles-Yepez is a scholar of comparative religion and co-author of A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters (Jewish Publication Society, 2009) and A Merciful God: Stories and Teachings of the Holy Rebbe, Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev (Albion-Andalus, 2010). He lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is a spiritual counselor, editor,… and painter of religious icons.
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, known as Reb Zalman, is the father of the neo-Hasidic Jewish Renewal movement. He was ordained by HaBaD-Lubavitch in1947, and later received his MA from Boston University and DHL from Hebrew Union College. He is professor emeritus of Psychology of Religion and Jewish Mysticism at Temple University and is World Wisdom Chair holder emeritus at Naropa University. He is the author of Spiritual Intimacy and collaborated with Miles-Yepez on Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Tales and Teachings of the Hasidic Masters. Netanel Miles-Yepez is a teacher of Sufism and Hasidism and, with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, is the co-founder of the Sufi-Hasidic, Inayati-Maimuni Tariqat, the… only Jewish order of Sufis in the world. He collaborated with Reb Zalman on Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of the Hasidic Masters and is the editor of The Common Heart: An Experience of Interreligious Dialogue. He is also the executive director of the Reb Zalman Legacy Project.