Pessach and Mortality

http://www.kveller.com/blog/parenting/thanks-to-passover-my-daughter-is-terrified-of-dying/

The death issue hung around for a while, with Raphaela asking me on a regular basis, "Mommy, I am not going to die, right?"  Or at a recent play date, "Mommy, I told my friend that she was not going die.  She didn't know that!"

After a week of respite from the topic, Raphaela informed me this morning that Pharaoh, after he died, had the choice for his Soul to "rest, or come back as a baby."

"Ah," I thought to myself, relieved actually,"now we have moved onto reincarnation."  I asked Raphaela if Pharaoh chose reincarnation and she shook her head in the negative, and we continued with our walk through the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo.