A Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat with Reb Simcha Raphael, Ph.D. covering two days of teachings and an afternoon lunch & Learn presentation.

SIMCHA RAPHAEL, Ph.D., is the Founding Director of the DA’AT Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training. He has worked as a death awareness educator, bereavement counselor and hospice chaplain for over twenty-five years. Ordained as a Rabbinic Pastor by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, he received a doctorate in Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and has written extensively on the topics of death, bereavement and the afterlife. His groundbreaking book Jewish Views of the Afterlife (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) is now in its third printing. 

Friday, March 21 at 7 PM is Erev Shabbat Teaching: "Jacob's Deathbed Fianle: Guidance for the End-of-Life Journey.

Saturday, March 22 at 9:30 AM si Shabbat Morning Service Teaching: "Mishkan(Tabernacle), Sacred Memory and Caring Community" , follwed at 12 Noon by Shabbat Afternoon Lunch & Learn Presentation: "Afterlife Journey of the Soul in Jewish Mysticism: Contemporary Implications".

All are welcome at any of the talks, please register for Lunch & Learn at tinyurl.com/CAA32225Lunch by 3/18/25.