Dharamsala

Eight Jewish delegates — rabbis, scholars, a Hasidic teacher, a poet — travel to the Dalai Lama's exile seat at his invitation, to answer one question: what is the Jewish secret of spiritual survival in exile? Reb Zalman teaches kabbalah in the reception room; both sides find tantric visualisation and Jewish esoteric practice closer than expected.

The second crossing, and the first time these two traditions knowingly sat in the same room. Nine centuries after the first.