The Mystery of the Mishkan – Carrying the Dead With Us
What did they do with Joseph’s bones while traveling through the Sinai desert?
Reb Simcha Raphael, Ph.D.
Reb Simcha Raphael, Ph.D. received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and was ordained by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as a Rabbinic Pastor. He is the Founding Director of the DA’AT Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training, and has taught widely on Jewish views of death and the afterlife across the United States, and in Canada, England and Israel. He has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Religion Departments of LaSalle University and Temple University, in the Aleph Ordination program, and in the Art of Dying Institute of the One Spirit Seminary. A member of the Rabbis Without Borders Network, he is the author of seven books on death and Judaism, including the ground-breaking classic Jewish Views of the Afterlife and the recently-published Musings with the Angel of Death: Poems of Love, Life and Longing. His website is www.daatinstitute.net.