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.

• 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

…Raphael’s book adds a Jewish voice to the cacophony of other traditions that avow that life continues. It clearly shows that Jewish belief in life after death and many elements of the near-death experience is older and deeper than contemporary doubt.