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  • May the Angels Carry You: Jewish Prayers and Meditations for the Deathbed

    by Simcha Paull Raphael ...
    "In this book of deathbed prayers and meditations, Dr. Simcha Paull Raphael provides us with powerful insights into Jewish tradition. His look at the role and power of prayer as life ebbs provides the reader with a foundation for comfort, compassion and caring that links us with a sense of the sacred. His desire to have us ritually engaged with life's last passage serves as a practical tool for ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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

    by Simcha Paull Raphael ...
    "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 ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spirits, Ghosts, & Dybbuks

    Afterlife Journeys in Yiddish Lore

    by Simcha Paull Raphael ...
    A richly researched and deeply spiritual work, Spirits, Ghosts, and Dybbuks: Afterlife Journeys in Yiddish Lore delves into the arcane realms of Jewish afterlife beliefs as vibrantly expressed through the imaginative worlds of Yiddish literature. In deftly demonstrating how the writings of I.L. Peretz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and others synthesized classical Jewish eschatology with the emerging ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Jewish Views of the Afterlife

    by Simcha Paull Raphael ...
    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, ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Jewish Wisdom for Living and Dying

    A Spiritual Journey Through the Prayers and Rituals of Maavor Yabok and Sefer HaHayiim

    by Steven Moss ...
    Numerous ritual manuals from the Jewish tradition have been written outlining the prayers and ceremonies that can be offered to the sick, the dying, and the dead. Two of the most outstanding of these manuals are Maavor Yabok and Sefer HaHayiim from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, respectively. This is the first book to analyze and compare these two important works, showing how they ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew

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