Kol D'mamah Dakah: A Rationalist Take on the Jewish Afterlife (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781975874438)

In an effort to reconcile religious and scientific truth, Kol D'mamah Dakah reinterprets the textual sources for the afterlife as metaphors for a person's legacy. In the world that comes after we die, our body may return to dust but our spiritual shadow remains: children we reared, literature we wrote, study halls we built, lives we touched... everything but our body lives on. The essay delves into Tanakh and Talmud, Rambam and Ramchal, neuroscience and near death experience, rabbis and philosophers both modern and ancient, and concludes that however disquieting this truth may seem, it too is for the best-ethically, scientifically, and spiritually. "Be not like servants who serve the master on condition that they receive a reward. Rather be like servants who serve the master irrespective of any reward. And let the fear of heaven be upon you." (Pirkei Avot 1:3)

Author: Shmuel Pernicone
ISBN-10: 1975874439
ISBN-13: 9781975874438
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2017
Pages: 94
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d