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After One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a richly nuanced and deeply personal look at Jewish attitudes and practices regarding death, mourning, and the afterlife as they have existed and evolved from biblical times to today. Taking its title from the Hebrew and Yiddish blessing to live to a ripe old age--Moses is said to have been 120 years old when he died--the book explores how the Bible's original reticence about an afterlife gave way to views about personal judgment and reward after death, the resurrection of the body, and even reincarnation. It examines Talmudic perspectives on grief, burial, and the afterlife, shows how Jewish approaches to death changed in the Middle Ages with thinkers like Maimonides and in the mystical writings of the Zohar, and delves into such things as the origins of the custom of reciting Kaddish for the deceased and beliefs about encountering the dead in visions and dreams.
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty is also Hillel Halkin's eloquent and disarmingly candid reflection on his own mortality, the deaths of those he has known and loved, and the comfort he has and has not derived from Jewish tradition.
- Sales Rank: #104378 in Books
- Published on: 2016-05-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.70" h x .80" w x 5.80" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 232 pages
Review
"It's refreshing to read a Jewish book on death that does not presume to offer guidance, either through that dark portal, or around it. Instead, Hillel Halkin . . . has written a brief, pellucid account of the role death has played in Jewish texts, law, thought and lives--including his own."--Esther Schor, Wall Street Journal
"[A]n accessible and trenchant exploration of Judaism's evolving concepts of death with his own struggle with understanding it. . . . Halkin's frankness about his own difficulties in coming to terms with his parents' deaths and traditional Jewish rituals such as sitting shiva help make this nuanced quest for meaning personal and affecting."--Publisher's Weekly
"By combining historical examples with his firsthand experiences, Halkin has created a well-rounded and thoroughly readable examination of how Jews face the unknown."--Jeff Fleischer, Foreword
"Literary scholar, premier translator of Hebrew and Yiddish literatures, depth reporter on modern Israeli life, and on the far side of 75, Halkin is just the man to condense the riches of Jewish thanatology. . . . What begins as analytic history ends in deeply moving, reflective memoir."--Ray Olson, Booklist
"A very user-friendly historical account of Jewish ideas about death . . . and how those ideas change. . . . [Halkin] is a master at 'popularisation' in the best sense of that term, bringing to a non-academic audience what are, in essence, some very complicated ideas."--David Hillel-Ruben, Jewish Chronicle
"Hillel Halkin, an American-born Israeli scholar and novelist, poignantly explores his own experiences while providing a history of Jewish thought."--Amy Frykholm, Christian Century
"Hillel Halkin's After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning and the Afterlife in Jewish Tradition is both instructive and thought-provoking. . . . One would be hard-pressed to find a more knowledgeable or astute guide through the vast literature of Jewish thanatology than Hillel Halkin. . . . Warm and affable, Hillel Halkin is also one of the flat-out brainiest persons I've ever met. . . . The Biggest of Mysteries being tackled by one of our best and brightest."--Matt Nesvisky, Jerusalem Post
"As he completes the eighth decade of his life, the distinguished author, critic, translator, and journalist Hillel Halkin ruminates in this learned and beautifully written book on mortality, including his own, and 'death, mourning, and the afterlife in the Jewish tradition'. . . . Anyone interested in the history of Jewish views concerning the afterlife and changing Jewish thinking about death from biblical times to the present should begin with this volume."--Choice
From the Back Cover
"Hillel Halkin is an uncommon and essential figure in Jewish intellectual life--a man at home in the entirety of the tradition and its languages, a secularist fascinated by religion, a scholar in the thick of the world, a critic with an insatiable appetite for exploration. All his writing is informed by a princely pride, wholly justified, in the resources of Jewish literature for the understanding of human existence. After One-Hundred-and-Twenty--this lively, even scintillating book about the passing of life--generously displays all of Halkin's virtues. It will enlighten its mortal readers, and even help them."--Leon Wieseltier
"This is a most remarkable and beautifully written book. Halkin elegantly weaves together illuminating scholarly examinations of various Jewish ideas about death, mourning, and the afterlife with his own wonderfully honest, humane, and deeply moving personal reflections on these subjects and on his own mortality. After One-Hundred-and-Twenty is in a class by itself."--Leon R. Kass, author of The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
"Hillel Halkin displays an impressive mastery of source material and writes with his customary flair and grace."--Allan Nadler, Drew University, author of The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture
About the Author
Hillel Halkin is an author, translator, critic, and journalist. His books include Jabotinsky: A Life and Yehuda Halevi, which won the National Jewish Book Award. He lives in Israel.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Terrific
By Ira E. Stoll
This is a beautifully written book about Jewish views and traditions regarding death and afterlife, woven together with accounts of the author's own experiences with mourning and with contemplating and preparing for his own death. There were some marvelous and, in my view, at least, fascinating Jewish texts included, including a midrash that in paradise everyone is grouped with members of his or her own profession, and Maimonides' view that there will continue to be rich and poor even in the world to come. Halkin is particularly attentive to how Jewish mourning traditions and views of the afterlife evolved over time; the regular recitation by mourners of the prayer known as kaddish, for example, "appears first to have become a daily practice in thirteenth-century Germany, from where it spread gradually to the rest of Ashkenazi Europe and beyond."
This material is unavoidably somewhat morose, but Halkin, who was my former colleague at the New York Sun and the Forward, is good, amiable company in confronting it and guiding readers through it. I hope he lives long enough to write more books as edifying as this one.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
some interesting speculation
By Michael Lewyn
The first (and best) two-thirds of this book surveys Jewish views of the afterlife. Halkin notes that the Torah's oldest books (the Five Books of Moses and the early writings such as Samuel) seem to treat the afterlife as "Sheol"- a realm where all are "gathered to their fathers" and sleep with occasional disturbances, regardless of their conduct in this world. Halkin suggests that this view made sense in a clan society, where people lived in small villages surrounded by their extended family. In such a world, he reasons, being surrounded by your clan after death seems only right (though his view does seem to conflict with the Patriarchs' nomadic lifestyle).
By contrast, in Second Temple times and thereafter, Jews moved around the world, became split into factions, and were stuck with foreign oppression. In such a world, being "with your fathers" didn't seem like a practical goal, and punishing bad guys seemed more important. So the ideas of reward and punishment in the afterlife became more prominent.
The last third or so of the book is about Halkin's own practices and those of his parents. I found this material less compelling than his historical speculation.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Ultimate Journey
By Charles Walowitz
Extraordinary investigation of a topic and history important to not just Jews but everyone interested in "Why and Where". Well written and readable it is both an academic presentation and easily readable for the lay person. I found it not only readable but strangely comforting. I am well on my way to "One Hundred and Twenty" and I do feel more comfortable about the voyage. My wife found the topic daunting and was not interested in the voyage though one day we all show up at the ultimate station. So grab your hat or kipah and take a fascinating pre-journey.
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