Eliezer Sobel Boeken

Eliezer Sobel's account offers a humorous and insightful exploration of alternative communities and spiritual practices over the last four decades. As a participant in various New Age and human-potential experiments, he shares his adventures across countries like India, Israel, Brazil, and Haiti. The narrative includes experiences with Primal Therapy, the Dalai Lama, cults, and psychedelic experiments, all presented with a perceptive wit that highlights his encounters with visionary figures and the eccentricities of contemporary spirituality.

Set in New York City, this novel follows Norbert Wilner, a 37-year-old grappling with arrested development alongside his childhood friends. As they gather to mourn a deceased friend, they confront their unfulfilled lives and the lingering impact of their pasts, including the shadow of the Holocaust. Each character, with diverse beliefs and quirks, reflects on their failures and aspirations. Norbert's journey leads him to consider becoming a rabbi and starting a funeral parlor, ultimately seeking meaning through humor, friendship, and spirituality.

The book addresses the need for engaging materials for dementia patients, particularly Jewish elders. Eliezer Sobel, through his experience with his mother who has Alzheimer's, created a picture book featuring rich images and easy-to-read captions that can evoke memories without requiring prior recollection. With over 30 million individuals affected by Alzheimer's globally, this work aims to foster reminiscence and meaningful connections between caregivers and their loved ones, filling a significant gap in available resources for this audience.

"Connections uses vibrant photos and minimal text in specially selected books to create conversation among caregivers and those in the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer's/dementia. This experience can help create special moments and memories for the caregiver as well as calming and reducing stress for the individual in care." --

The late Gabrielle Roth was the source and force behind a worldwide community of many thousands of people who loved and practiced "The 5Rhythms ®," a path of spiritual healing rooted in the body and movement (see 5Rhythms.com). This book is a collection of personal stories from about 170 of those people from every corner of the globe, relating intimate and powerful, unforgettable and often life-changing moments they experienced engaging with Gabrielle. She was known far and wide for being outrageous, profound, hilarious, mysterious and impenetrable, as well as utterly transparent, vulnerable, and completely attentive, present and loving with each soul she encountered. Everyone she met, for a moment on the street, or for decades doing her work, felt, above all, seen, and connected as if to a very special, life-long friend.