The Grief Journey and the Afterlife: Jewish Pastoral Care for Bereavement

by Simcha Paull Raphael PhD

Overview

"Simcha Paull Raphael is a skilled and compassionate guide to the terrain of grief. His elegant weaving of Jewish custom, psychological wisdom and visions of the afterlife provides an invaluable resource for anyone caring for Jewish mourners on their path from loss toward wholeness."--- Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, author of Jewish Wisdom for Growing Older: Finding Your Grit and Grace Beyond Midlife"This is a book that will be an invaluable resource, not only for pastoral counselors, but for all of us who are facing our mortality. In it, Simcha Paull Raphael unpacks the wisdom that is contained within the Jewish tradition of death and dying, and teaches us how these insights can bring health and healing in our time. This is a wise and a helpful book, and should be cherished."--- Rabbi Jack Riemer, editor of Jewish Reflections on Death

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692360545
Publisher:	Albion-Andalus Books
Publication date:	03/04/2015
Series:	Jewish Life, Death, and Transition
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Simcha Paull Raphael, Ph.D. is the Founding Director of the DA'AT Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training (www. daatinstitute.net). He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Jewish Studies program of Temple University, and in private practice as a transpersonal psychotherapist and spiritual director in Philadelphia. Ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as a Rabbinic Pastor, he has written extensively on death and afterlife, and is author of the groundbreaking Jewish Views of the Afterlife.