Rabbi Simcha Raphael, PhD, is founding Director of the DA’AT Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training. He is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at LaSalle University and works as a psychotherapist and bereavement counselor affiliated with Mount Airy Counseling Center in Philadelphia. Ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as a rabbinic pastor, he is author of numerous publications on death and afterlife including the groundbreaking text, Jewish Views of the Afterlife.