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The Soul of the Story: Meetings With Remarkable People

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There are many different ways of telling a life- story.One is through encounters or meetings with significant others, often teachers. This is the method David Zeller chooses to relate his quest for deeper spiritual understanding.

The child of a Jungian therapist he at an early age initiated a meeting with Jung. And Western psychology Carl Rogers, Maslow remain a part of his background. But the greatest part of his quest and his focus is on remarkable, non- conventional spiritual teachers. And these he meets in abundance especially in his wanderings in India. Among the teachers he meets are Sai Baba, Sri Pad, Swami Hariharananda. These teachers are tremendously influential, but the single great teacher , guru , master, Rebbe of Zeller's life is the heilegen Reb Shlomo Carlebach.

Carlebach more than any other teacher puts Zeller in touch with his own Jewishness. And the meeting with Reb Shlomo is decisive in Zeller's spiritual path. Reb Shlomo is the 'mesader Kedushin' at Zeller's marriage to his wife Elana. It is Elana, the mother of Zeller's first three children, who makes the decision to move the family to the religious community of Efrat in Israel. Elana death from cancer is the most painful part of this book.

In a chapter subtitled 'Life After Death' Zeller movingly tells of his meeting Hannah- Sara, who would restore his soul, and be the mother of his youngest- child.

This book has much for spiritual questing souls , both in its description of the characters he meets along the way, and Zeller's own spiritual development. And it is highly recommended on this basis.

Zeller is one of a remarkable group of pupils who were inspired by the great Reb Shlomo Carlebach. Among them was my own holy teacher, his master joker and humorist, the person who more than anyone else I have ever known could lift the soul of every person he meet, the great Reb Dovid Herzberg. He like Zeller was again one of the many remarkable souls who Reb Shlomo inspired and uplifted on their own spiritual paths.

May the light of these holy teachers shine more strongly in Israel , and for the redemption of all Mankind.

Amen.

I totally loved it!!!!

Having lived a very similar life my jaw dropped when I read it.

It's a really important book for anyone investigating the real spiritual quest.

I really regret that I never had a chance to meet Rabbi Zeller!!!!

Ephraim Jeffrey Geltman