Remarkable Insights about Death and the Afterlife
Remarkable Insights about Death and the Afterlife
It is the one subject nobody wants to open until the day he has to. What happens after, what the neshamah carries with it, and what you are supposed to say when you walk into a shivah house.
Sixty-four essays on the journey and what follows it — the visit that matters more than the phone call, the time that is ticking, the countenance that is concealed, and what the meis takes with him and what he leaves.
Kesubos and Sanhedrin throughout, read with the Shulchan Aruch, Tosafos, the Vilna Gaon and the Zohar.
For nichum aveilim, and for the reader who would rather understand it before he needs to.
Rabbi Yehoshua Alt has written thirteen seforim in the Insights series, and writes the weekly Fascinating Insights sheet carried on JewishPress.com.
216 pages · hardcover or paperback · 6 × 9 in · English
What is inside
64 essays. A few of them:
- Jewish Journey
- Zimbabwe’s 100-Trillion-Dollar Bill
- Serendipitous Surprise
- Tenuous Tenure
- Correct Course
- A Lively Death or a Lively Life?
- Ticking Time
- Vital Visit
- More than a Phone Call
- Gentle Giant
- and 54 more
Masechtos cited
Shabbos · Kesubos · Sanhedrin · Taanis · Baba Metzia · Eruvin · Yevamos · Baba Basra · Pesachim · Moed Katan · Yoma · Megillah · Kiddushin · Baba Kamma · Makkos · Zevachim · Menachos · Chullin · Tamid
Sources
Rashi · Shulchan Aruch · Tosafos · Vilna Gaon · Zohar · Midrash · Igros Moshe · Rambam · Chofetz Chaim · Sefer Chassidim · Arizal · Yerushalmi · Ramban · Tur · Maharsha · Baal Shem Tov · Ramchal · Bnei Yissaschar · Shelah · Chazon Ish · Maharal · Kli Yakar · Chayei Adam · Steipler
Suited to
Nichum Aveilim
What reviewers said
“The connection between this world and the next is a main thread of this book.”
Rosally Saltsman, The Jewish Press
216 pages · 6 x 9 in · English