Rabbi David A. Cooper is an author, lecturer, teacher and meditation guide. Shoshana Cooper is an artist, Tea Ceremony teacher, meditation instructor, composer, and ex-Nursing Instructor. In earlier years, David was a successful businessman, a student of both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, a sailor and a world traveler. His best selling book, GOD IS A VERB, has been translated into a number of different languages and has sold over 115,000 copies.

Rabbi Cooper and Shoshana have been leaders in the growing popularity in Jewish Meditation. They taught at the Jewish Renewal Kallah for twelve years and they lived in the Old City of Jerusalem the previous eight years. Rabbi Cooper has written four books on the subject of contemplative Judaism, including: THE HANDBOOK FOR JEWISH MEDITATION PRACTICES (Jewish Lights), THREE GATES TO MEDITATION PRACTICE (Skylight Press); A HEART OF STILLNESS: A Complete Guide to Learning the Art of Meditation (Skylight Press); and SILENCE SIMPLICITY & SOLITUDE: A Complete Guide to Spiritual Retreat.

In addition, Rabbi Cooper has recorded a best selling series with Sounds True called: THE MYSTICAL KABBALAH. An additional set, SEEING THROUGH THE EYES OF GOD is also available. Cooper has authored two new books, each with a CD included: ECSTATIC KABBALAH and INVOKING ANGELS, published by Sounds True. The Cooper’s have produced a very popular CD: SONGS OF PRAYER AND SILENCE, which includes many of the melodies they use in the morning prayers on retreat. Much of the music was composed by Shoshana.

For ten years they guided programs for beginning and advanced meditators at the Jewish Retreat Center, Elat Chayyim, in upstate New York, which recently became part of the Isabella Freedman Center. They have taught together or individually at Omega Institute in New York, Mt. Madonna in California, the Open Center in New York City, Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley, Yesod in Colorado, Hollyhock in British Columbia, Rowe Conference Center in Mass., as well as in Holland, Germany, Israel, Poland, Australia and New Zealand..

Rabbi Cooper has been the keynote speaker at a half-dozen conventions on meditation, and he has lectured at dozens of courses in both meditation and Kabbalah. He has taught in 40 states at over 250 venues. Cooper has been interviewed on nationwide radio, NPR, as well as TV and has appeared in dozens of newspaper articles. A television documentary of him was telecast in Europe and Israel. The Coopers currently reside in Colorado.