{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Jewish Ideas to Change the World","title":"Dr. Alan Morinis and Dr. Beverly Spring – Living to Die and Dying to Live: Lessons from a Mussar Teacher & a Palliative Care Doctor","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3783,"description":"A virtual event presentation by Dr. Alan Morinis and Dr. Beverly Spring\r\n\r\nThis event is co-sponsored by:\r\nMt. Sinai Cemetary\r\n \r\nABOUT THE EVENT:\r\nWe all know we are going to die and yet we live as if it will never happen to us. The Jewish spiritual tradition of Mussar seeks to help us come awake so that we might live better, more ethical, more spiritual lives and has recognized that awareness of death can help bring us to that awakening. In this session, we will build a framework of teaching on this subject from the Mussar masters, and fill it in with experiences and stories from 3 decades of service on the front line in palliative care. By drawing on age-old wisdom about living and dying, as well as contemporary experience in caring for the dying, we will explore together with the goal of making sense of the teaching we encounter in the book of Ecclesiastes: “It is better to go to a house of mourning than a house of feasting” and why that is true.\r\n\r\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS:\r\nDr. Alan Morinis, DPhil, is Founder of The Mussar Institute, and a leading figure in the contemporary revival of the Mussar movement, a 1,100-year-old Jewish personal and communal spiritual tradition that was nearly lost following the Holocaust. A filmmaker, Rhodes Scholar, and anthropologist whose doctoral research at Oxford University focused on Hindu religious pilgrimages, he reached a personal turning point in his life in 1997 that led to his exploration of Mussar. Following years of study he reinterpreted the ancient Mussar learnings and practices for modern audiences in his books Climbing Jacob’s Ladder and Everyday Holiness. To address the growing public interest in Mussar, he founded The Mussar Institute in 2004. He has since authored two more books, Every Day, Holy Day, and With Heart in Mind.\r\n\r\nDr. Beverly Spring, MD MCFP (PC) is a physician in and former Medical Director of the Vancouver Home Hospice Palliative Care Service, providing support to palliative patients and their...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rgXhZfTlnTjybGe2Y8VJvw1nIGugVMdj7wEKsMGYlrk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5ODEyLzE2NTEw/Nzg1NjAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}