Jewish Views of the Afterlife (s/c)
By Simcha Paull Raphael
A thorough exploration of Jewish thought and speculation on the afterlife.

• Forward - by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a charismatic Jewish spiritual teacher, and founder of the contemporary movement for the spiritual renewal of Judaism.
• Introduction - A Personal Journey
• Is There Afterlife After Auschwitz?
• Biblical Roots of Jewish Views of the Afterlife
• Tours of Heaven & Hell in Aprocryphal Literature
• The World to come in Rabbinic Judaism
• Visionary Tours of the Afterlife in Medieval Midrash
• Immortality of the Soul in Medieval Philosophy
• Afterlife and the Soul in Kabbalah
• Death and the Afterlife in Hasidic Tales
• A Contemporary Psychological Model of the Afterlife
• Bibliography

Simcha Paull Raphael, Ph.D. has a doctorate in Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, as a Rabbinic Pastor. He is a psychotherapist and bereavement counselor, affiliated with Mount Airy (PA) Counseling Center, and teaches in the Department of Religion of La Salle University, and at Chestnut Hill College, in Philadelphia, PA.