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In the third edition of Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Rabbi Simcha Paull Raphael walks readers through the Jewish tradition of the afterlife while providing insights into spiritual care with dying and grieving individuals and families.
List of contents
Foreword to the First Edition, by Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi
Foreword to the Third Edition, by Arthur Green
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
1 A Personal Journey
2 Is There Afterlife after Auschwitz?
3 Biblical Roots of Jewish Views of the Afterlife
4 Tours of Heaven and Hell in Apocryphal Literature
5 The World to Come in Rabbinic Judaism
6 Visionary Tours of the Afterlife in Medieval Midrash
7 Immortality of the Soul in Medieval Philosophy
8 The Afterlife Journey of the Soul in Kabbalah
9 Death and the Afterlife in Hasidic Tales
10 Spirits, Ghosts, and Dybbuks in Yiddish Literature
11 A Contemporary Psychological Model of the Afterlife
12 Afterlife and the Renewal of Jewish Death Rituals
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
About the author
Simcha Paull Raphael is founder and director of the DA’AT Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training, adjunct professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at LaSalle University, and on the faculty of the New York Open Center’s Art of Dying Institute. He works as a transpersonal psychotherapist and bereavement counselor affiliated with Mount Airy Counseling Center in Philadelphia and is a Fellow of the Rabbis Without Borders network. His website is www.daatinstitute.net.
Summary
In the third edition of Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Rabbi Simcha Paull Raphael walks readers through the Jewish tradition of the afterlife while providing insights into spiritual care with dying and grieving individuals and families.
