Is there life after death?
What is the nature of our existence?
To know the answers is to find greater purpose, understanding and comfort in our lives - and in our deaths.
With candor, questioning, and sharp-eyed scholarship, Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz recounts his own experiences and the firsthand accounts others shared with him propelling his own journey from skeptic to believer that indeed, the soul does survive bodily death.
An inexplicable "mistake" he makes while conducting a funeral; his neurologist wife's startling experience during a channeling session with a medium; the awesome moments Rabbi Spitz encounters at the deathbed of a dying friend...these events and others punctuate his quest to uncover the Jewish tradition's answers about what happens to our souls after death.
Does the South Survive? looks squarely at both sides of the issues (addressing, for example, the discrepancies in afterlife and reincarnation accounts), and an appendix presents a comprehensive view of what Torah and Jewish scholars throughout the ages say on the subject of the immortality of the soul.
Ground breaking and inspiring, this book also gives us thought-provoking ways to live our lives now, in light of the Jewish views on afterlife, in order to cultivate our souls and seize the opportunity to live this life with increasing awareness and generosity.
Elegantly written . . . Rabbi Elie Spitz's 'journey' will inspire its readers to follow his example and search for what is meaningful in Jewish life and learning."...Elie Wiesel
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