Jewish Meditations on the Meaning of Death Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Wherever His Words Are, There He Is	1
2	The Way to Heaven	3
3	In Their Place in Heaven, No One Else Can Stand	7
4	The Lesson of a Funeral	11
5	The Holy Master	12
6	Remember with Joy	22
7	Bound in the Bond of Eternal Life	26
8	The Way to Die	30
9	In His Presence	37
10	"Rabbi Meir, Why Weren't You Rabbi Meir?"	39
11	The Beauty of Creation	41
12	Sandcastles	43
13	The Peacemakers	45
14	Enough for a Grave	47
15	The Body Language of the Dying	50
16	How Great Is Man!	56
17	A Mother	58
18	To Be Judged as One	61
19	He Fulfilled What Is Written	64
20	Happiness Awaits Him	66
21	Welcome in Peace	69
22	The Treasured Tears	72
23	The Lost Pearl	77
24	The Dead Who Are Alive	79
25	The Captain of the Ship	81
26	The Topsy-Turvy World	83
27	When Is It Good to Die?	86
28	Why Do the Righteous Die?	88
29	The Loneliest Death	90
30	Who Stands on the Holy Place?	93
31	On the Loss of a Wife	95
32	On the Loss of a Child	97
33	The New Dwelling	99
34	The Dissolved Partnership	102
35	We Will Be There Before You	104
36	The Absolute Truth	106
37	The Conquest of Death!	108
38	Weep Sore	111
39	The Wedding and the Funeral	114
40	Start Living!	117
41	The Wife of Your Youth	121
42	The Shortened Steps in Life	123
43	The Gift of Comfort	125
44	Life: The Passing Shadow	127
45	The Loss of the Temple	130
46	Knocking at the Door	132
47	Man's Companions	136
48	Bend Your Head	139
49	A Good Name	141
50	He Took Nothing	143
51	Praise Them!	145
52	All Gifts Must Be Returned	149
53	Blessed Shalt Thou Be	152
54	In the Fullness of Life	154
55	Choose Life!	156
56	The Comforting of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai	160
57	The Lessons from Bereavement	180
	Bibliography	205
	Index	209