The Catholic Church has stated that Jewish commentaries on scripture are a valuable source of information but must be used with discretion.
It is an unmistakable teaching of the Talmud that death was among the things created by God (and confirmed by my quote from Sirach, post #1) and which God declared at the end of creation as very good.
I glanced over those paragraphs from the Catechism, and I don’t see anything that narrows down to this subject.
The Jews are philosphical about the conflicts and even contradictions in scripture, noting that Ps 62 says God said one thing and I heard two things. This is perhaps a case where, collectively, we have heard two things. The goal of Jewish biblical scholarship is harmonization when resolution itself cannot be achieved. Perhaps that is the case here.
A previous post pointed out that death is not an entity. Well,maybe, life isn’t an entity either. Where does that take the discussion?
As in my original post, we might see that God created death (everything is not enumerated in the creation account of Genesis) so that Jesus could die on the cross for our sins, and that we could unite ourself, first in baptism, with his death and resurrection.
Physical death is the door to eternal damnation, the second death, for those who are not saved.
