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Podcast: Meaningful Life Skills with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode: The Meaning of Death in Kabbalah
Description: The very word death fills our hearts with dread. We consider it as unfathomable as it is inevitable. But what exactly is death? What happens at that moment when soul and body separate? In truth the mystery of death is one with the mystery of life: What happens at the moment of conception when soul and body meet and join?
Medicine and science deal primarily with the causes of illness and death -- and ways of battling it, to help prolong life. They address the definition and symptoms of health, life and death in b...