About This Course
Explore Jewish concepts of death and dying, with a particular focus on Biblical texts, Mishnah Torah and Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. This course is a very important part of the pastoral care work of lifecycle clergy.
This course is 1 credit towards smicha
Course Objectives
Course will give you an understanding of vidui, keriya, services and eulogies, kaddish, aveilut, yahrzeit and more. This course will embrace difficult issues of end of life as well as suicide and its implications for pastoral care. Additionally, this course will touch on theological ideas of afterlife and resurrection.
This course is video-based, with quizzes at the end of each unit. Students receive one credit for this course.
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Donald MeltzerRabbi Wasser does an excellent job of combining practical advice and the halachic sources relating to each of the topics. My only criticism is that it would also help if he'd reflect on how to consider some more liberal values in the application of the halacha...including a more gender-egalitarian perspective.
Madison MeljacThis course is one that I am printing and saving notes, especially for people who do not have lots of experience in this area. I have a better understanding of all the things I didn't know and where to get information.
What a great class. The texts and explanations are comprehensive and the instructor was incredibly detailed and thought provoking. While the minutiae regarding whether I should continue my haircut if I learn about a parents passing while in the middle of a trim feels absurd, it is so telling as to how much time our ancestors had to ponder the things that matter most...