Reb Simcha Rafael, Ph.D.

Reb Simcha Raphael, Ph.D. is Founding Director of the DA’AT Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training. Currently, Simcha works as a psychotherapist and spiritual director in Philadelphia and has served as Adjunct Professor in Religion at LaSalle University and Temple University, and as a Spiritual Director at Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Ordained as a Rabbinic Pastor by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, he is author of numerous publications on death and afterlife, including the groundbreaking book Jewish Views of the Afterlife and the recently-published Jewish End-of-Life Care in a Virtual Age: Our Traditions Reimagined. His website is www.daatinstitute.net.

Essays

From Bereaved Refugee to Man of Destiny: A Midrash on Pandemic Languishing and Hearing the Call

March 24, 2022

Abram, Sarai and Lot were alone in the wilderness of unknowing, in grief, unable to return to the old familiar ways. And so it is with us today.

Reb Simcha Rafael, Ph.D.

Essays

From Bereaved Refugee to Man of Destiny: A Midrash on Pandemic Languishing and Hearing the Call

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