D'vrei Torah
Be Culturally Radical: Live As If You Are Dying
Reb Simcha Raphael provides some reflections on Yizkor. [Read more…]
bereavement
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Seekers of Meaning 3/17/2023: Rabbi Daniel Roberts and Melinda Moore, Discussing Books on the Trauma of Suicide
Rabbi Daniel Roberts and Melinda Moore discuss post-traumatic growth, including a conversation about their book collaborations, The Suicide Funeral (or Memorial Service): Honoring their Memory, Comforting their Survivors and After the Suicide Funeral: Wisdom on the Path to Posttraumatic Growth. [Read more…]
Kol Bo
Death and Sorting
Rabbi Sandra Cohen writes about the logistics surrounding a family death. [Read more…]
Living Longer-Living Better
From Bereavement to Redemption and Hope
Rabbi Susan Elkodsi reflects on the upcoming Tisha B’av observance and its ability to take us from bereavement to redemption and hope. [Read more…]
Reflections on Aging
Bubble, Bubble, COVID Trouble
Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny makes her Jewish Sacred Aging debut as a contributor with an essay about missing the security of a COVID-19 bubble. [Read more…]
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Be Culturally Radical: Live As If You Are Dying
Reb Simcha Raphael provides some reflections on Yizkor. [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
JSA Podcast 2016-15: Rabbi Simcha Raphael, Part 1, on Death, Dying, and Bereavement
In this edition of the Jewish Sacred Aging podcast, Rabbi Address welcomes Rabbi Simcha Raphael, Ph.D., director of the Da’at Institute, for the first part of a two-part conversation about Jewish views on death, dying, [Read more…]
Baby Boomer Bubbe
What’s Meant to Be? The Randomness of Chaos? G-d’s Will? Or Is There No Answer….
Sunday was a different day for our family. It was the only day my Dad didn’t work, except for Easter Sunday, Father’s Day and the Sundays from Thanksgiving through Christmas. My Dad and his two [Read more…]
Books
Recommended book: The Grief Journey and the Afterlife: Jewish Pastoral Care for Bereavement
This book synthesizes an understanding of traditional Jewish rituals of death and mourning, with contemporary psychological perspectives on grief and bereavement. In addition, Simcha Paull Raphael integrates the traditional understanding of Jewish mourning rituals with [Read more…]
D'vrei Torah
Presence is an active, not passive, activity
Often we think of “being present” for the other as being available to hear them and be with them. We say we reach out to them but in reality, we are offering to wait for [Read more…]