ARTICLES

1) “The Afterlife: A Post-Mortem Journey.pdf” by  Simcha Raphael

2) “Afterlife in Zohar.pdf” by Simcha Raphael

3) “Death of Moses in Torah and Midrash: A Sacred Journey Through the Stages of Dying.pdf” by Simcha Raphael

4) “Images of Joseph’s Bones in Torah and Midrash.pdf” by Simcha Raphael

5)  “Pregnant Emptiness – A Midrash on the Moments Before Lekh Lekha.pdf”  by Simcha Raphael

6)  The Akedah – Isaac’s Vision Quest and Near-Death Experience.pdf  by Simcha Raphael

7) “Yizkor: From Mourning of Mega-Death to Soul-Guiding.pdf” by Simcha Raphael

8) “Yom Kippur and the Tradition of Remembering Souls on the Other Sideby Simcha Raphael

9) “A Mother’s Memorial Meditation on Life and Death – U’netaneh Tokef – 5776” –  by Rabbi Margot Stein

10) Lyric Sheet for “May the Angels Carry You – Jewish Songs of Comfort for Death, Dying and Mourning“, CD by Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael

11) Essay – “What Does It Mean to Pray for Someone Who Is Dying?”.pdf  by Simcha Raphael (From May the Angels Carry You – Jewish Prayers and Meditations for the Deathbed)

12) Dvar Torah on Parshat Vayehi – Jacob’s Deathbed As A Model for Living and Dying –
by  Simcha Raphael

13) “Do Jews Believe in the Afterlife?” by Simcha Raphael (From Chapter 2, Jewish Views of the Afterlife, “Is There Afterlife After Auschwitz?”

14) Sarah’s Death and the Cave at Machpelah – by Simcha Raphael
(From Living and Dying in Ancient Times – Death, Burial and Mourning in Biblical Tradition)

15) Joseph’s Bones in Torah and Midrash – by Simcha Raphael
(From Living and Dying in Ancient Times – Death, Burial and Mourning in Biblical Tradition)

16) Moses’ Death and the Stages of Dying  by Simcha Raphael
(From Living and Dying in Ancient Times – Death, Burial and Mourning in Biblical Tradition)

17) Cremation, Cremains and the Journey of Consciousness – Jewish Renewal Reflections

18) V’ higadeta L’vincha: Passover As a Time for Remembering and Memorializing Loved Ones

19) Be Culturally-Radical: Live As If You Are Dying – Reflections on Yizkor

20) DA’AT Institute Newsletter #2

21) Breathing New Life into the Afterlife: A Conversation with Simcha Raphael

22) DA’AT Newsletter 2020

23) Guest Blog: Yizkor — Remembering Our Ancestors in Pandemic Times, JewishSacredAging.Com

24) Exploring the Grief Journey: Workshop Resources (New York Open Center)

25) Transformation of Jewish Death Rituals in Times of Crisis, Pandemic and Cultural Dislocation, from Jewish End-of-Life Care in a Virtual Age, 2021

26) Welcoming Rosh HaShanah-New Year in a Time of Climate Catastrophe, by Simcha Raphael, 8.30.21

27) Glossary of Jewish Death Rituals – Simcha Paull Raphael

28) Cycle of Jewish Death Rituals – Simcha Paull Raphael

29) “Death and Dying” in HANDBOOK OF JEWISH RITUAL AND PRACTICE, ed. Oliver Leaman, London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 436-445.

30) “Foreword” to JEWISH WISDOM FOR LIVING AND DYING: SPIRITUAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE PRAYERS AND RITUALS OF MAAVOR YABOK AND SEFER HAHAYYIM by Steven Moss. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022.

31) “What Does Judaism Have to Say About the Afterlife” by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar

32) “Afterlife Journey of the Soul in Jewish Mysticism and Tradition” in RALPH METZNER EXPLORER OF CONSCIOUSNESS – THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A PSYCHEDELIC PIONEER, edited by Cathy Coleman, Rochester, VT 2024, pp. 264-273