The Jewish Life Cycle - Death and mourning: End of Life Questions

 

 

 

 
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CHAPTER SEVEN - Death and Mourning: End of Life Questions

A: BACKGROUND

  1. Introduction
  2. Initial Thoughts on Big Ideas
  3. The End of Life: Struggle and Release
  4. Accepting the Decree: Confession and Preparation: Life as a Gift
  5. The Technicalities of Death
  6. Burial Questions: Honouring the Dead
  7. Aninut – The Storm Before the Calm
  8. Kaddish Questions
  9. The Burial: Additional Features
  10. Homecoming – The Shiva as Mourning Framework
  11. Introducing the Shiva: The Shiva as Theology
  12. The Shiva as Sociology
  13. Summing Up the Shiva
  14. Continuing Mourning: The Later Stages
  15. From Mourning to Remembrance
  16. Death and Mourning: Summing Up

B: PRIMARY TEXTS

  1. Sources
  2. Struggle and Release
  3. Confessing
  4. Going Back to G-d
  5. The Moment of Death
  6. Body Burying
  7. Kaddish
  8. Tearing One’s Clothes: The Precedents
  9. Burial Prayers and Funeral Practices
  10. The First Meal
  11. How Much Mourning?
  12. The Koheleth Perspective

C: EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Index

  1. The Moses Example
  2. Whose Life is it Anyway?
  3. Burying Friends and Neighbours
  4. Keriah
  5. To Say or Not to Say
  6. The Ideal Shiva
  7. Confronting Koheleth

D: BIBLIOGRAPHY & ONLINE REFERENCES

Bibliography

Online References

 

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