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Title: What Happens After I Die?: Jewish Views of Life After Death by Rifat Sonsino, Daniel B. Syme ISBN: 0-8074-0356-3 Publisher: Union of American Hebrew Congregations Pub. Date: July, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I learned something
Comment: My gentile friends (and my less educated Jewish ones) occasionally ask me what Jews think about the afterlife. After reading this book, I know the answer. The answer is: there's no consensus. Certainly Jews don't have the precise picture of Heaven and Hell that some fundamentalists have. There is (outside the leftward fringes of Reform Judaism) a consensus that there is some sort of afterlife -- but no consensus (even within Orthodox, Conservative or Reform as far as I could tell) as to what that afterlife looks like, except for some vague notion of some sort of reward and punishment in the world to come.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great perspectives and approaches to the afterlife
Comment: This book's usefulness is certainly not limited to a Jewish audience. The wide range of essays included in Sonsino & Syme's book provide insight into the views of other faiths as well, especially Christianity. I was required to read this book as a college religion student to better understand Jewish views of the afterlife, but it is just as well suited for someone who wants to sort out their own personal views. I am confident that regardless of your own opinions and the level of your reflection on the afterlife, you will be moved by several of the included essays.
Rating: 4
Summary: A nice intro, brief and simple
Comment: This book is obviously an attempt on the part of the Reform movement to correct the misconception, common among Reform Jews, that there is supposedly no Jewish belief in an afterlife. The authors explore a variety of beliefs about life after death from different periods and branches of Judaism. I was pleasantly surprised to see a section on reincarnation, acknowledging that Hasidim and some others believe in it.
All in all, although the book takes a more rationalist approach than I would prefer, it does give the average reader a nice introduction to Jewish afterlife doctrines. Best of all, it's short and very reader-friendly.
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Title: The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Maurice Lamm ISBN: 0824604229 Publisher: Jonathan David Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought by Neil Gillman ISBN: 1580230814 Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Saying Kaddish : How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew by Anita Diamant ISBN: 0805210881 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 12 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Jewish Mourner's Book of Why by Alfred J. Kolatch ISBN: 0824603826 Publisher: Jonathan David Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Jewish Views of the Afterlife by Simcha Paull Raphael ISBN: 1568219385 Publisher: Jason Aronson Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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