Death and Meaning

David Wolpe
There is both certainty and mystery in life’s limitation

The Washer and the Washed: Bound in Sacred Duty

Lynn Greenhough
As we begin the taharah, the physical washing of the dead person, we acknowledge God’s welling amongst us.

The Origin of Death: Early Genesis

Jan Uhrbach
Was human death part of God’s original plan or was it introduced only as a punishment?

Death: The Deepest Challenge

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering
and the Human Condition, Ed. David Schatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky, and Rueven Ziegler.

Rachel S. Hallote, Ivan R. Dee, Death, Burial and Afterlife in the Biblical World, Ed. David Hazony