A: BACKGROUND

1. Introduction
2. Initial Thoughts on Big Ideas
3. The End of Life: Struggle and Release
4. Accepting the Decree: Confession and Preparation: Life as a Gift
5. The Technicalities of Death
6. Burial Questions: Honouring the Dead
7. Aninut – The Storm Before the Calm
8. Kaddish Questions
9. The Burial: Additional Features
10. Homecoming – The Shiva as Mourning Framework
11. Introducing the Shiva: The Shiva as Theology
12. The Shiva as Sociology
13. Summing Up the Shiva
14. Continuing Mourning: The Later Stages
15. From Mourning to Remembrance
16. Death and Mourning: Summing Up

B: PRIMARY TEXTS

17. Sources
18. Struggle and Release
19. Confessing
20. Going Back to G-d
21. The Moment of Death
22. Body Burying
23. Kaddish
24. Tearing One’s Clothes: The Precedents
25. Burial Prayers and Funeral Practices
26. The First Meal
27. How Much Mourning?
28. The Koheleth Perspective

C: EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Index

29. The Moses Example
30. Whose Life is it Anyway?
31. Burying Friends and Neighbours
32. Keriah
33. To Say or Not to Say
34. The Ideal Shiva
35. Confronting Koheleth

D: BIBLIOGRAPHY & ONLINE REFERENCES

Bibliography

Online References