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Musings With The Angel Of Death: Poems of Love, Life and Longing

Musings With The Angel Of Death: Poems of Love, Life and Longing - Paperback

by Simcha Paull Raphael
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Availability:In StockContributor:Simcha Paull Raphael, Jill HammerSeries:Jewish Life, Death, and TransitionTheme:Ethnic Orientation/Jewish, Religious Orientation/Jewish, Topical/Death/DyingPublish date:2024-03-27Pages:172
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Albion-Andalus BooksISBN-13:9781953220370ISBN-10:1953220371UPC:9781953220370Book Category:Poetry, ReligionBook Subcategory:Jewish, Subjects & Themes, JudaismBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.42Product ID:SC542H69MN

Intense and deeply personal, this compilation of poetry, grapples with the reality of death, loss, and finding meaning in the face of life's finitude in contemporary times. For over three decades, Simcha Paull Raphael has written scholarly books on death and the afterlife, including his groundbreaking study Jewish Views of the Afterlife. In this collection of thirty-six poems, Raphael invites us into the inner sanctum of his own intimate wrestling with death and loss. As Rabbi Jill Hammer writes in the Foreword: "Raphael has done the brave work of exposing his own emotional life, the inner workings of his drive to address mortality and immortality. In a sense, he has let us know the behind-the-scenes of his academic and spiritual work."

The poems herein reflect and wrestle with a spectrum of topics: the gamut of Jewish death rituals (funeral & shiva, Kaddish & Yizkor); personal tributes to the author's deceased parents; his journey of making meaning in the face of grief and loss; challenges of love and marriage; the vicissitudes of family life; and thoughtful poetic reflections on the state of the world today. As a book mirroring the universal journey of awakening to the reality of life's finality and eternity, Musings with the Angel of Death speaks to the heart and soul.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Albion-Andalus BooksISBN-13:9781953220370ISBN-10:1953220371UPC:9781953220370Book Category:Poetry, ReligionBook Subcategory:Jewish, Subjects & Themes, JudaismBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.42Product ID:SC542H69MN
Raphael, Simcha Paull: - Simcha Paull Raphael, Ph.D. is Founding Director of the DA'AT Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training. He received a Master of Arts in History and Philosophy of Religion from Concordia University, a doctorate in Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and was ordained as a Pastoral Rabbi by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. He has served as Adjunct Professor at LaSalle University, Temple University and in the Aleph Ordination Program. Currently, he works as a psychotherapist and spiritual director in the Philadelphia area, and is on faculty of the Art of Dying Institute of One Spirit Learning Alliance. He has written extensively on death and Judaism including the groundbreaking book Jewish Views of the Afterlife.Hammer, Jill: - Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, is a scholar, ritualist, poet, midrashist, and dreamworker. She is the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, a pluralistic seminary, and cofounder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, a program in earth-based, embodied, feminist Jewish spiritual leadership. Her other works include Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams; Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah; The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons; and Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women. She and her family live in Manhattan.
Publisher: Albion-Andalus Books

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