Reb Simcha Raphael, Ph.D.
- Founder and Director, DA’AT INSTITUTE – Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training
- Ph.D., Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA (1986)
- Rabbinic Pastor, ordination by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1990)
- Master of Arts, History and Philosophy of Religion, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (1975)
- Bachelor of Arts, History and Philosophy of Religion, Honours, with distinction, Sir George Williams University, Montreal, QC (1972)
- Transpersonal Psychotherapist, Mount Airy Counseling Center, Philadelphia, PA
- Free-lance educator on mysticism, spirituality, death, afterlife and bereavement
- Adjunct Faculty, Department of Religion and Theology, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
- Professor of Jewish Spirituality, D. Min. Program in Jewish Spirituality, Graduate Theological Foundation, Mishawaka, IN
- Adjunct Faculty (2016-2018), Psychology Department, Bryn Athyn College,
Bryn Athyn, PA - Adjunct Associate Professor (2007-2014), Jewish Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- Spiritual Director (1999-2009), Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA
- Fellow, Rabbis Without Borders
- Author Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Jason Aronson, 1996, Rowman and Littlefield, 2009 (2nd edition), 2019 (25th Anniversary, 3rd edition)
- Author The Grief Journey and the Afterlife: Jewish Pastoral Care for Bereavement, Albion-Andalus Books, 2014
- Author Living and Dying in Ancient Times: Death, Burial and Mourning in Biblical Tradition, Albion-Andalus Books, 2015
- Author, May the Angels Carry You – Jewish Prayers and Meditations for the Deathbed, Albion-Andalus Books, 2016
- Author, Echoes from the Ashes: Holocaust Poems of Life, Death and Re-Birth, Albion-Andalus Books, 2019
- Born July 1, 1951 Ste. Agathe des Monts, Quebec
- Married to Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael
- Father of Hallel [b. 1998] and Yigdal Raphael [b. 1990]
