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Course in Orlando explores life, death, and the afterlife
January 15, 2021
This winter, Chabad Centers throughout Orlando will offer Journey of the Soul, a new six-session course by the acclaimed Rohr Jewish Learning Institute that will answer a question which has occurred to every self-reflective person: What happens when we die?
The course will begin Feb. 2 and run through March 9, from 7:30-9 p.m., at Chabad of Altamonte Springs, Nate’s Shul in Lake Mary, Chabad of Greater Orlando, and 7– 8:30 p.m. at Chabad – Center of Jewish Life in South Orlando. The course will be offered over Zoom as well as in-person with masks and social distancing. Please see each.
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John Martin Fischer takes on the Immortality Curmudgeons
Could an immortal life be worthy of choice for human beings? In contemporary philosophy, the English philosopher Bernard Williams has posed this question against the backdrop of Elina Makropulos’s choice to decline an elixir of eternal life in a play by Karol Capek, made into an opera by Janos Janacek. Elina’s life had become boring and alienating; she had lost all interest and projects that she cared about, and she thus threw away a second dose of an elixir that would give her three hundred more years of life. Williams famously contended that living forever would