Dying to Know: A 4-Part Class on Dying, Death and Mourning Practices in Jewish Tradition

Wednesdays, April 30, May 7, May 14, May 21  7:00-8:30 pm in person and on Zoom Registration Required

The Jewish tradition offers a variety of rituals and traditions aimed at supporting meaningful and deliberate dying, death and mourning experiences. We have two primary goals with this 4-part series. 1) We aim to help participants deepen their knowledge of Jewish death and mourning rituals and customs so that they feel better equipped to engage with these traditions in their own lives. 2) We hope to promote greater discourse and engagement in our community around the topics of death and dying.

Rabbi Jacob Fine has been part of the CBI community for the past 13 years. While he remains scared of dying, he is working to become more comfortable with the inevitable. He is drawn to the question of how we integrate awareness of death into our daily lives as a spiritual practice and feels that one of the most important features of community is how well we support one another through the stages of dying, death and mourning. Becky Tucker: Becky (she/her) is a registered nurse working in elder care and hospice, a student in ALEPH’s Rabbinic Pastor Program, and a member of the wonderful CBI community. She is grateful for the humbling gift of supporting individuals and their loved ones throughout the aging and dying process. Through her work and ongoing learning, she strives to embrace a more intimate, spiritual, and even joyful relationship with death and its lessons about life, both personally and communally.