Jewish Views of the Afterlife (eBook)

Simcha Paull Raphael (Autor)

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2019 | 3., Third Edition
528 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0346-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Originally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition and mysticism.As both a scholar and pastoral counselor, Raphael guides the reader through 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating pertinent sacred texts produced in each era. Through a compilation of ideas found in the Bible, Apocrypha, rabbinic literature, medieval philosophy, medieval Midrash, Kabbalah, Hasidism and Yiddish literature, the reader learns how Judaism conceived of the fate of the individual after death throughout Jewish history. In addition, this book explores the implications of Jewish afterlife beliefs for a renewed understanding of traditional rituals of funeral, burial, shiva, kaddish and more. This newly released twenty-fifth anniversary edition presents new material on little-known Jewish mystical teachings on reincarnation, a chapter on ';Spirits, Ghosts and Dybbuks in Yiddish Literature', and a foreword by the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, Rabbi Arthur Green.Both historical and contemporary, this book provides a rich resource for scholars and laypeople and for teachers and students and makes an important Jewish contribution to the growing contemporary psychology of death and dying.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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 BibliographyIndexAbout the author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 8 Illustrations including: - 8 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Ghosts • grieving • Hospice • Near-death experiences • Reincarnation • Spirits
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0346-X / 153810346X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0346-3 / 9781538103463