Dear Friends:

Many of you have followed the development of this website beginning a year ago. Initially, the intention was to provide an archive of all of the writings and recordings of your’s truly in a single package composed of over two hundred files. We did that, and it worked out quite well, with over five hundred current subscribers.

The general feeling expressed by our subscribers is to develop greater focus, more interaction, and occasional availability for one-to-one contact with David or Shoshana. In response, we have refined the website to what I will call the 2.0 version.

One: Instead of providing the entire archive all at once, we will have a more "orderly" presentation. We will have an easy index that will quickly take users directly to the fie of interest.

Two: We will encourage feedback on the selected items, thoughts, ideas, questions, disagreements, and so forth that will hopefully stimulate further exploration. David will select out of the correspondence material that, with discretion, will be added to a blog.

Three: A library of mp3 audio selections of the entire archive will always be available to interested subscribers, and will be sent in a digital format at a very modest cost for those who want specific subjects sent to them. Print files will always be fully accessible on-line at no cost to the subscribers.

Four: The primary intent of this website will be to bring greater focus on what we will call Contemplative Judaism, including: a) deepening meditation practice, b) focus on Kabbalah and Zohar, c) engagement in the Jewish calendar (especially Shabbat and the Holy Days), d) taking on practices that enhance greater wisdom and compassion on a day-to-day basis, and e) willingness to encounter cross-fertilization with other major contemplative traditions.

Five: Any subscriber who wants individual engagement with either David or Shoshana will be able to arrange an ongoing process of email communication, or pre-arranged one-on-one telephone conversation. This kind of attention, by necessity, would have to be financially compensated, based upon one’s ability to pay.

Six: Along the same lines, we would hope that subscribers who find the website useful will voluntarily make regular monthly or quarterly donations via check or Paypal equivalent.

Seven: It has been suggested to have a day-long virtual meditation practice once a month, with intervals of communication during the selected day via a computer link or a conference call during which instruction would be given to participants in a way that would be useful, direct and explicit.

Eight: This site will remain a work in progress, adjusting when necessary to the needs of the subscribers, and is open to other suggestions that could be entertained. Feedback is welcome. Please send comments on the contact page. We will read all contacts and will post some. GO TO THE EVENTS PAGE TO SEE WHICH OF THESE IDEAS ARE BEING INTEGRATED.