With passion and humor, this powerful general guide incorporates philosophy and story with ideas for daily living--including suggestions for setting up your own meditative practice. Emphasizing the need for joy and community in meditation, Davis invites you to wander this extraordinary and compelling path of the heart--hitlahavut, the way of flame.

Davis combines traditional teachings and his own unorthodox experience, including a stint as a mendicant monk ("though in a Jewish sort of way") at a Catholic abbey in southern California, to offer a fresh and reinvigorated understanding of the spirit of Jewish meditation.