Simcha Paull Raphael

Simcha Paull Raphael, PhD, completed his doctorate in psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and received ordination from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as a rabbinic pastor. He works as a psychotherapist, beravement counselor, and spiritual director, affiliated
with Mt. Airy Counseling Center in Philadelphia, and is adjunct assistant professor in the Jewish Studies Program at Temple University. For the past two decades, Dr. Raphael has worked as a
death awareness educator, teaching and leading workshops on death and the afterlife in Judaism. He has also worked as a hospice counselor and as resident psychologist in a Jewish funeral home. He is author of Jewish Views of the Afterlife, and is presently in a program of
rabbinic ordination at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Riverdale, New York. His website is www.simcharaphael.com.