Episode 90: Rabbi Simcha Raphael studies ideas on the Jewish afterlife

He's a scholar. A therapist. And a rabbi. And all three of those disciplines have touched on his work deeply studying what Judaism has to say about the supernatural and especially the afterlife.

Rabbi Simcha Raphael takes me on a fascinating, personal, and well-researched dive into his decades' long work into a realm that doesn't get as much attention as it does in Christianity: what happens to us after we die.

If you think about God, life and death, and the lesser-known parts of our world, "the window, not a door" we can peek through of the afterlife, this is a must-listen ... 

You may also be inspired to read one or more of his books if this conversation grabs your attention. Recommended is a visit to his Da'at Institute and the books:

• Musings With the Angels of Death: Poems of Love, Life and Longing, one poem from which is shared in this episode
• The quintessential Jewish Views of the Afterlife, now updated and in its third edition.

Other books of thought and poetry on end-of-life issues and care appear on the same website. 

P.S. For those into the feminine aspects of spirituality, Jewish of otherwise, an upcoming interview will feature the rabbi's wife, also a rabbi, who is working on a special deck of oracle cards drawing from Jewish ideas of the feminine aspect of God, the Sh'chinah.