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OUR FATHER, HELL AND HEAVEN : M. M. NINAN
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The Thirteenth Principle -The Dead will be Resurrected
Maimonides' final principle of Jewish faith is the belief in the bodily resurrection of the dead in the olam
haba, or world to come:
"I believe in complete faith that there will be a resurrection of the dead
When the Creator so wills -blessed be His Name
And exalted be His remembrance forever and for all eternity.
The notion of resurrection appears in two late biblical sources, Daniel 12 and Isaiah 25-26.
Daniel 12:2–“Many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, others to
reproaches, to everlasting abhorrence”–implies that resurrection will be followed by a day of judgment.
Those judged favorably will live forever and those judged to be wicked will be punished.
Later Jewish tradition, however, is not clear about exactly who will be resurrected, when it will happen,
and what will take place.
Some sources imply that the resurrection of the dead will occur during the messianic era. Others
indicate that resurrection will follow the messianic era. Similarly, according to some, only the righteous
will be resurrected, while according to others, everyone will be resurrected and–as implied in Daniel–a
day of judgment will follow.
The Daniel text probably dates to the second century BCE, and at some point during the two centuries
that followed, another afterlife idea entered Judaism: the immortality of the soul, the notion that the
human soul lives on even after the death of the body. In the Middle Ages, Jewish mystics expanded
this idea, developing theories about reincarnation–the transmigration of the soul.
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What Happens After We Die?
By Shlomo Yaffe and Yanki Tauber
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/282508/jewish/What-Happens-After-We-Die.htm
"One of the fundamental beliefs of Judaism is that life does not begin with birth, nor does it end with
death. This is articulated in the verse in Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), “And the dust returns to the earth as it
was, and the spirit returns to God, who gave it.”
While there are numerous stations in a soul’s journey, these can generally be grouped into four
general phases:
the wholly spiritual existence of the soul before it enters the body;
physical life;
post-physical life in Gan Eden (the “Garden of Eden,” also called “Heaven” and “Paradise”);
the “world to come” (olam haba) that follows the resurrection of the dead.
What are these four phases, and why are all four necessary?
As discussed at length in chassidic teaching, the ultimate purpose of the soul is fulfilled during the time
it spends in this physical world making this world “a dwelling-place for God” by finding and expressing
Godliness in everyday life through its fulfillment of the mitzvot.............
Thus the stage is set for phase 2: the tests, trials and tribulations of physical life. .........
Everything physical is, by definition, finite; indeed, that is what makes it a concealment of the infinitude
of the divine. Intrinsic to physical life is that it is finite in time: it ends.
Once it ends—once our soul is freed from its physical embodiment—we can no longer achieve and
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