Gog and Magog: Characteristics of the End of Days - Part 4 - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman

part two of Resurrection if you remember yesterday we were exploring that Resurrection is in fact an authentic Jewish belief often people consider resurrection or associate resurrection with being the belief of other religions Christianity namely but Christianity like many things got it's belief in resurrection from the original Jewish teachings and we saw sources in verses for example in the prophets Yehezkel and also in the Book of Daniel references explicit references to the idea of Resurrection in into our sources we also saw many different sources in Tom music literature that point to the belief and speak out more detail about the Jewish belief in resurrection how generally speaking how it's gonna happen to who it's gonna happen and things like this and we also discussed how it's it's in fact part of all of our Jewish daily Jewish beliefs for example when we say modani or the blessing alaka'i neshama or when we do the the Amidah three times a day there are all read their references and all of those examples to the Jewish belief in resurrection and we also saw that the Rambam the new brains thirteen principles of faith one of those thirteen principles is the belief in the resurrection it's such an integral part of Jewish belief that the Rambam says that anybody who doesn't believe in one of these thirteen principles including the belief in resurrection that's tantamount to denying 10:00 tonight to join Jewish belief so therefore first and foremost we saw many sources in verses and in Talmudic literature and in the literature of the commentaries that resurrection is in fact an original Jewish belief we saw some interesting questions about how for example we would reconcile the Jewish belief of resurrection with that of reincarnation meaning if Judea since reason believes that a soul can be brought down into many bodies that raises the question which of thought bodies will be resurrected resurrected we discussed several possibilities but they accept the the the main opinion seems to be that any of the bodies that were associated with perfecting the soul will it'd be a merit resurrection we also discussed whether resurrection will take place in any particular time of what's mapped out as the 6000 years of Jewish history and we spoke in general how it will come after the period of the end of days after the period of Armageddon in the period of what we're talking about the times of the Messiah that we discussed whether it would be before machine after machine from the Rambam we saw that there's a gradual process that's described whereby resurrection would seem to take place after the coming of the Messiah and we saw different sources whether it's 40 years after 70 years after or 400 years after but sometime after the communist yeah there will be resurrection we also discussed that there are sources would indicate a pre resurrection remember a pre resurrection where even before Messiah or at the time of the coming of Messiah sources talk about how Moses and Aaron or even members of their generation and the wilderness other great righteous holy people be resurrected early on in order either to experience the redemption as it unfolds or in the case of motion Arland to guide the resurrection and Moshe skates to give them a ship's torah rulings about how things should be or in the case of Aaron in order to guide the construction of and the running of the base of my gosh and that raised a very interesting question whether in fact Messiah himself could be of the resurrected earlier on and then guide the Jewish people towards the redemption and we saw commentaries that say that that's in fact the case mashiac himself could be a product of an earlier phase of resurrection and then guide the processes as we've discussed well we also looked into the question about where resurrection will take place only in the Land of Israel or even outside of the Land of Israel and the conclusion seems to be that even people who are buried outside of Israel will be resurrected only the way it will take place is miraculously tunnels will be made underground those bodies or the remains of the bodies will be transported under the ground come out in Israel and then the bodies will be reconstructed in the Land of Israel and only after all they're constructed will a soul be breathed into them so that people back to life in the land of the living which is the land of Israel the the last types of things that we want to cover which is what we're going to discuss today are more details about how the actual body is reconstructed what the Jewish sources say about the way the body is reconstructed specifically during resurrection also for example whether people will be resurrected as they died or maybe the bodies will be resurrected in some miraculous type of a way and another interesting question we want to discuss for example is whether only Jews will be resurrected or will non-jews be resurrected and another very interesting question is what's going to happen to the people who are actually alive at the time of the resurrection are they going to live through the resurrection or will they themselves also have to undergo resurrection in order to join right that community of resurrected individuals afterwards okay yeah I mean I can answer that first really I don't know if I can give the greater the most satisfactory answer but one thing is to come in mind is that on everything having to do with the Messiah the end of days I'm again in reincarnation true but even certainly resurrection the like has to do with freewill and if things were too clearly mapped out then the answers were very obvious in which case it would take away from free will thereby undermining the whole purpose for which things are supposed to happen and therefore I think that's probably the major reason why mashiac is clouded in doubt for example you mention Messiah and the sources say that even when a chef comes some people will accept and others will not it's not going to be at least initially clear-cut why to enable people to make that freewill decisions that needed in order to perfect themselves and bring about the perfection of the world and therefore even Messiah and everything surrounding that isn't shrouded in doubt and the Rambam himself says that our sources say a lot about this we can't know for sure until it actually happens and that's important qualification of what we're doing here as well you might have noticed that most of the things that we're talking about some say this some say that and I've been speaking about some say this and that the generally accepted opinion seems to be this but it's not something which is necessarily cut and dry and conclusive and the reason is because like you're saying there's doubt about all this stuff number one it's not physical its metaphysical number two it's not here at some time in the future the number three it really represents the coming into fruition of the whole purpose for which we were created with freewill and therefore if we know too much about it we'll have too much information to make the right decisions where we really have to be challenged to make those decision so let's now talk a little bit about what the sources say regarding the how the actual reservation is described as taking place physically so there's what's referred to as the lose bone this lose bone is a special bone in the body which is according to our sources the point from which the resurrected bodies will come into being there is a Midrash and coelus raba which says that Hadrian who was a Roman Emperor Hadrian wanted to know and he asked where where is this right where is this where is this where is this lose bone located and he addressed this question to review Shubin Honami oh not what this dis resurrection that you Jews believe in how does it happen where does that what is the body reconstructed from and the rabbi told it comes from the loose bone okay this loose bone what is the lose bone the you shall me and Bravo says that the loose bone is part of the remains of the body and it's there in the place where a person has been buried what will happen is God will bring a special type of a do it's called the do of resurrection or in Hebrew the Tahlia this drew of resurrection will seep into the ground intermingle with the remains of the body starting with the remains of this loose bone and it's going to be from that point that the body is actually going to sprout forth and be reconstituted question is where is this lose bone where is it located which of the bones is the lose bone so braces Robin chapter 28 says that the lose bone is in the spine it doesn't say where but it's one of the it's one of the one of the one of the one of the bones in the vertebrae in the spine it's a vertebrae in them in the spine Rashi also says that it's in a spine but this Rashi on the on the Brit on the on the mid rest abrasions Robert said it's located at the bottom of the spine I don't know what the source for ah she's saying that is but apparently he has a source the ariza the master Kaaba list of more recent times said that the lose bone is actually in the upper part of the spine and most specifically it's that vertebra which is opposite to the place where you put the knot of your chi'lan so that really the spine kind of goes into the skull to a certain extent we put the knot of the fill in here at the base of the skull one of the vertebrae which is equal to the base of the skull not one of the upper ones apparently but the one that's opposite that knot of the trilling so it's almost like the lose bone is going to be at that place which corresponds to the knot of the chi'lan and that not of the trilling is viewed sometimes as being the point beyond which human conception can no longer conceive God why because the straps God is described as wearing trilling and the straps of those trilling reach down into the world those are like the straps of the trill and reaching down those strats go up they'll go their other other up and then they tie behind God's head we know that Moshe asked God high Rania's drag head huh show me your ways and God said to Moses right no you're on your dime the high a person cannot see me and live God said you can't see me but I'll show you I'm not all right I'll show you what's behind me and therefore what happened is he told Moses to hide in the crevice of a rock it covered him God covered him with his hand as he went by and then after God passed he let Moses see him and Moses was able to see we're told the knot of god's tefillin so the knot of the trillion is associated with the points at which when we climbed those straps of God's chillun which reach down into the world and try and extrapolate upward towards the source of God we can get no further than that actual knot but behind that knot which represents the essence of God his mind his soul right that's something which we can't understand it's tied it's closed therefore that our result seems to be associating clear samay seen as that kind of tide spot corresponding to the knot of the Toulon and the body is going to be reconstituted from that bone that bone which is opposite the knot of the trillion is going to be the take-off point right from the place that we can note which we can currently not arrive to but from the time of Clea Mason the resurrection will have an opening of consciousness which will enable us to go beyond that not right that's the lose bone that's where it's located what are some of the qualities of the lose bone we're told in our sources that this lose bone is indestructible braces Robert chapter 28 talks about how to be shovin hanya brought a lose bone and he put it in water it wouldn't dissolve he threw it in fire it wouldn't burn he took a anvil and hammer and started smashing it they hammer broke but the bone wouldn't break according to this there's something very strong sturdy and durable about that lose bone that would perhaps be the explanation as to why it's from that bone that the body is reconstituted because the rest of the body will decay but this bone remains and therefore the body will come together from that tangible remains of the buried body there's another source which says that this bone is in the neck it's very hard and it will not burn and it will not perish just as we see that God created Eve from the side of Adam which might have been a rib bone so to the body which is the continuation of a person's body in this world the resurrection will also be reconstituted from this from the bone so just Eve came from a bone so the resurrected body will come from the the fact that the source on resurrection kind of compares the relationship of Adam and Eve the relationship of the body in this role to the next implies that it's like a male-female partnership here the body or what the body provides for the person in this world as we know it will end up right having a counterpart in the spiritual realm as well so this body and the resurrected body are in some type of relationship like a marriage male and female connecting as helpmates one to the other question is why the lose bone what's so special about this lose bone that it should be the point for resurrection couldn't have been any so we alluded to the before the possibility that since the lose bone is stronger it's harder it's more durable that's the remain of the body from which it's reconstituted but there are explanations given in Kabbalah Jewish mysticism as well and one of the explanations is brought by the Ilya raba and he says that the lose bone did not receive nourishment from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which means that while the rest of the body derives some nourishment from that experience the body derives some benefit Adam and Eve's body drive some benefit from transgression the lose bone did not and therefore since that lose bone was not tainted from the transgression and that transgression resulted mortality such that the lose bone is not subject to mortality it's for that reason that the lose bone among all others is the one that's used for reconstitute for reconstitute in the body during resurrection because it's it's free from its free from mortality another explanation which is given by the bush is that the lose bone itself doesn't depend on nourishment at all and that's the reason why and that's the reason why it's not subject to any of the temporal influences that a person experiences here in this world in this life and since the loose bone doesn't really just derive any temporal physical nourishment it's that part of the body which is used in the world to come the resurrected body which is going to be free from the type of physical nourishment that people need another very interesting explanation is that given by the kapha kind the cop behind says that there's something special about the lose bone which in fact does require nourishment but it only receives its nourishment from food that's eaten on lots of Shabbos Saturday night so since the sin of vitamin Eve was on Friday that that Eve that first eve of Shabbos the rest of the body like we said earlier derived benefit from the eating of the fruit of knowledge the tree of good and evil except for the lose bone the lose bone did not why because it only Teresa sustenance from food that's eaten on Saturday night and therefore it was not tainted by mortality the coffin Heim takes at one point further and says it's for this reason that it's very important to eat the final meal of Shabbos malapa maka the fourth meal of Shaba specifically on saturday night because it's only that meal which gives nourishment to the lose bone connecting the idea that a person who eats maleva Malka he will merit having the world to come why because he's nourishing this lose bone from which the body will be recreated the the commentaries also discussed the basically the Midrash brings a mock locus between beit sahm i in beit he'll allow how the body is actually going to be reconstituted given the fact that it comes from the lose bone the lose bone is a bone which is in the spine it seems like it's the upper part of the spine in the air of the neck according to the arteries all its neck it sits opposite the place of the tefillin once the body starts to congeal around that lose bone how does it actually take place so beit sahm i says the formation of a person in this world is not like his formation in the world to come in this world the formation of the embryo starts with the skin and flesh and finishes with the ceno's in the bones so we've seen that it goes from the outward in the outer part of the person is created first and then the inner structure comes into being but in the future world the world to come the body is going to take shape with the outer shell first they're sinners in the bones you know first and then the skin and the flesh will follow okay so according to this description what's gonna happen is the body's going to be reconstituted from the lose bone the inner tissues are going to be created first and then the and then involved with the outer tissues afterwards that might convey the idea that in this world it's the other way around a person first created externally and then the internal organs are are developed you know that's perhaps suggesting that this world is a world which is more externally located and people put more of an emphasis on externalities first then only second do people start approaching content but the world to come it's not going to be that way it's got the main essential part of a person is going to be the inner dimension of a person and externals are going to be of secondary importance that's the opinion debate Shaw might Beit Hillel says no they're the same just the formation in this world so be the formation and the future in the future to come in this world formation commences with the skin and flesh and includes with the citizen bones meaning it goes from the outside it so true the world to come is going to go from the outside in the different of opinion yeah we generally say that even though the ha'la'tha nowadays is like hello in the world to come yeah well thought was gonna be like me chiming so it could very well be that we would accept pochamma as a position regarding this then even though in this world first things are constructed from the external and then infused with the internal and their will to pom the body is going to be created the other way around first internally and then developed externally uh when they are resurrected these bodies are they going to be resurrected as the person was buried as the person's body was when he died and was buried or are they gonna be resurrected from the outset anew right with a new body so who do we find different opinions that warrants in Hedren 91 B says reish lakish contrasted two verses he said his written one verse in year me out chapter 31 I will gather them in referring to the redemption among them will be the blind and the lame the woman with cha together with a woman in labor meaning a woman will be experiencing labor pains so he's describing a scenario where the redemption is going to involve people who are lame and sick and blind or suffering pain but then he says another verse which talks about redemption in Isaiah 35 says then shall the lame man leap like a heart like a deer or steed and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for waters will break forth from the wilderness and streams in the desert you know so it's easy to contradiction the second verse indicates that the time of resurrection people that were lame will be jumping yes people who were dumb and couldn't speak will be shouting out and song so the Gomorrah here notes the contrast the contradiction tries to make sense of it is the redemption that involves people who are initially sick and lame or people who have been cured from their sicknesses and so forth and so on so the more answers what's gonna happen is people are going to initially be resurrected with the infirmities with which they were buried and then they will be restored back to a state of health so if a person for example was buried as an amputee initially you will be resurrected without that limb but afterwards that limb will be miraculously restored to the person by the way who logically speaking if a person god forbid does have to have an organ removed or limb amputee generally speaking the Jewish practice is to acquire a grave bury the organ there and have the rest of the body buried together with it when the person dies yeah so that the person's body should be buried in in in a way in with the greatest degree of integrity as possible the ZOA actually says a similar thing the saw in part is it more says come and see when they will awaken from the dust so here is explicitly talking about resurrection as they went in they will rise lame or blind if they enter lame or blind they will rise with the same body so that no one would say it is another one who was revived so people are going to come back to lie as they were when they died and that's gonna help people recognize oh that's so and so oh that's so and so afterwards the Holy One blessed be he the czar says will heal them so that they will be whole and the world will be whole in everything regarding verse regarding this the verse says on that day God shall be one and his name will be one and the sources explained that according to this position where the body is resurrected initially with its infirmities and it's going to be restored to a state of health it's going to be restored back to the state that the person was in at the age of 20 and this is based on the idea that Adam and Eve were actually created as ripe healthy 20 year olds that being viewed as the pinnacle of a person's strength anybody here over 20 yeah so you're past your prime according to this when people will be resurrected they will be resurrected according to the way they were buried and then revert back to the state that they were as 20-year olds that being said if God forbid a person dies before the age of 20 they'll be resurrected as they were when they die and then be sped up in order to be brought to the prime age of 20 where a human being is considered to be at his physical emotional intellectual and spiritual prime that being said yeah that's a very interesting question the fetus should be buried I mean it's no longer an embryo and it's a fetus it's a living organism in organ and it should be buried the fetus is buried so again 40 days I don't know if it can't be but it's my eye you know I'm actually I have to go not I'm not a hundred percent discern but but my it's my understanding that before that period of forty days the child is that the baby is not buried it's not considered to have it's considered to be alive but not a living being that would be yeah I don't know whether it has to be maybe it shouldn't be but if but but we're getting into an area that I'm not confident enough enough to say for sure variance is the question though yeah good question worth looking into the midrash period where the answer says unlike the sources that we saw until now which is the goranson Hedren Lazar this predator of the Ezzor another Midrash says that in fact the bodies will be resurrected in their prime will be resurrected in their prime I saw one of the commentaries tries to reconcile the seeming difference between the first sources and this latter source as follows that the first sources would say that the body will be resurrected first misinformed infirmities and then perfected is going under the understanding that the lose bone remains intact so that the body that emerges from that lose bone will have the quality of the original body when it died and therefore be resurrected in its infirmities and will therefore have to be miraculously brought back to its state of perfection the latter understands that the lose bone can be destroyed it's intermingled with the dual of resurrection therefore to create a new body entirely resurrected from a new which is not essentially connected to the previous body through the physical remains of the loose bone and therefore it's resurrected anew so I don't know if we have a generally accepted opinion on this the other than the fact that the resurrected body is coming from the loose bones so what we see so far there is that it's coming from the lose bone the lose bone seems to be in the spine somewhere in the upper part of the spine probably opposite to the yeah to the to the dawn of the trail it creates a reformation of the body according to the opinion of Shammai from the inside out and the body itself is first resurrected with its infirmities and then miraculously brought to the state of of its perfection like Adam and Eve at the time of creation who also by the way of course created from the earth so to the resurrected bodies like Adam and Eve will be coming out of the earth in the state of these of twenty of twenty year olds II you know some of the interesting details about actually the stages of resurrection are going to include the question like whether the bodies of the righteous how will they be resurrected what's the point here according to Jewish sources the bodies of the very righteous do not decompose underground they remain intact they remain intact and this is one of the reasons for example that we find that Yaakov and Yosef embalmed the bodies were involved in Egypt even though that wasn't a Jewish right process procedure one of the answers given as to why they did that is because certainly in the case of Yaakov having his excuse me Joseph having his father yakko's body embalmed is that he knew that his father was at Sadiq and as such a great Sadiq yakko's body would not decompose and if his body didn't decompose the Egyptians who are idolaters would come to deify jaco's remains and therefore he agreed to have his father's body and bombs so that people would attribute the preservation of Yakov's body not to his being righteous but to the fact that he was embalmed and therefore prevent them from worshiping him yeah and it's a similar reason why Joseph's body was hidden under the Nile until the Jewish people were redeemed said none of the Egyptians would see the preserved remains of Yosef and come to deify Yosef as well therefore this is just one source which attributes the fact that the bodies of the righteous do not become we're gonna see some more sources about this shortly but the basic idea is that since these people lived very spiritual lives their bodies became infused with spirituality and that protects them those other bodies actually became more soul than body the intense presence of the soul in the body made their bodies more like Souls and bodies so when they died this body is not subject to the worm to rot into decay to compose it remains so our question is going to be that we're gonna see more sources about that but they altered the question going to be what's going to happen to these spiritual eyes bodies of the righteous will they decompose in order to undergo resurrection or will be there resurrect or will they be resurrected as they died and remained in the ground hole before we do that question coming I don't know if we know whether the bodies are actually there today or not what's that first of all well I'm just saying you know first and foremost you know the Arabs and the Muslims who basically ruled there will never tolerate anybody going down number one number two even according to Jewish tradition a person is not allowed to go there and there are stories of people doing so in dying and therefore it's been sealed off and as far as I know nobody has really entered that place in recent time somebody claims to have gone in there under the stealth of night with a crew of two or three people and we're roaming around the inner labyrinths of them of the michaela below but even they I don't think claim to have seen any bodies so you know either of those bodies decayed or they haven't and they're there you know but they've been sealed and as far as I know nobody has seen those bodies think it more talks about somebody who went into the maras enough paler and saw there would seem to be a light which was bright as the Sun and it turned out to be the heel of all the Mauritian so at least in more times what who went into the cave Adam they saw the heel of Adam because of the people that are buried there you have Adam Avram you suck and Yaakov and the head of a South right now there is just some examples of the bodies of the right just not composing we find that the Torah in devouring Deuteronomy chapter 34 says about nor shade that his eyes had not dimmed and his vigor had not diminished Rashi explains there that this is referring to even after he died his body did not decompose as an example of how the righteous whose bodies become spiritual eyes do not decompose there's another Gomorrah very interesting Gomorrah Baba Basra page 58 where they are there was a certain magician it would seem to be it was a non Jewish magician or wizard and he is he was roaming around in the graveyard trying to strip the the dead of their clothing now he wasn't just trying to steal from the from the dead in order to get a wardrobe obviously he was taking the clothing that was used to enshroud the dead in order to tap into the negative forces of death and impurity in order to practice his magic in magic and witchcraft in his dark and his dark designs and things like this so we're told and look more that he found the burial cave of a certain rabbi there this is rabbi tawbah maintenant and when he went to try and take the clothing off the rabbi that was buried there the more says that the rabbi that was buried there reached out and took hold of this Wizards beard and it wouldn't let him go implying that the rabbi was somehow not only intact but also alive under the ground alive in his burial place he took hold of this Wizards beard so the beer that would the wizard was crying for help another rabbi came by and spoke to the rabbi whose grave had been plundered and said let him go so the rabbi let him go according to Gomorrah and the wizard left next year the Gemara says the wizard came back to the same place trying to get this clothing what's the explanation there it would seem that perhaps it was the York site or something there was something special about this day and he went specifically to this grave despite the fact that the previous year his beard had been taken hold of he realized there must have been some very special power to the body that was buried there the proof is it took hold of his beard so he chanced to venture there another time next year yeah and take the clothing again and the same thing happened the rabbi think Morris has grabbed the person's beard yeah he called out for help the same rabbi came by again probably indicating that the rabbi realized there was something particular about what this wizard or practice of black magic wanted to do and he understood that it would probably happen again next year on the same day so he made himself available the same day next year and this time he said let him go but he wouldn't let him go he asked me let him go a little bit we wouldn't let him go until the rabbi had to take a pair of scissors and cut off the Wizards beard and it this way he freed him obviously the cutting off the beard was something very consider to be very disrespectful and there must be deeper messages here as well it's kind of an interesting far-out type of a story but anyway at least conveys the idea that there's something which remains intact about the bear and the bodies of the righteous after they die there's another similar Gomorrah in Chaves 152 which describes how there were certain gardeners that were bearing in the property of Ralf and Nachman as they were burying as they were digging in the earth they heard some noise rumbling and grumbling from under the earth so there they were very perturbed and they went in order to see what was going on and they discussed what was happening with Rob Nachman so I've not one heard this and he thought it was very strange he went out into the yard in order to see what was going on there and lo and behold he actually saw that there was a body buried there who was this body this was the body of rava high by OSHA and he said to rava high right what are you doing there what are you doing under the ground and he said I'm married here so the rabbi quoted from a verse and says it says that a person shall return to dust and here I see her bodies whole so he says you might know punished but you don't know the rest of Torah very well because it says elsewhere in the verse that jealousy decomposes the bones a person who is subject to jealousy his bones will decompose but if he's not subject to jealousy he's a person who has elevated his character traits above normal human behavior that person is not going to be subject to death and decay so he said well if that's the case then why don't you just come out of the grave and join us he said you really don't know what you're talking about clearly right we learned from another verse that a person is to be posited into the earth until the time of the redemption at that time he will come out of the grave so according to this we find that the phenomenon of a person's being particularly righteous and pure can actually spare himself from death and decay and therefore based on all this the question is what's going to happen to the righteous the righteous who die are buried the bodies remain intact at the time of resurrection will their bodies remain will they emerge as they were intact underground or they undergo some type of decomposition and read resurrection the answer is that's given is that they will in fact decompose the question is why if the body was whole enough was pure enough in order to make it free from decay and decompose so then why the time of resurrection is it not holy enough to be resurrected as it is and the answer that's given is as follows that it's true that the bodies of these righteous individuals were spiritual eyes through their holiness but that's only visa vie the world as we know it they elevated themselves above the behavior of most of the people in the world and therefore when the world as long as it is the world as we know it these people will excel and their bodies want to be subject to the laws of digging of decomposition and they want and they want mom when you're talking about the period of Resurrection those bodies are going to be resurrected yes anew into a new spiritual reality and that spiritual reality is going to purify the world to extend far beyond the world that we know now in order for those people to be resurrected and have eternal bodies in that state their bodies have to be purified from any taint of sin even if they themselves overcame and a great creator with a great extent their evil inclination in this world but they still have a certain degree of the transgression of Adam and Eve in consuming the fruit of the tree of knowledge and good and evil and it's that tainting of that original sin which has to be removed so the ramada remains intact until resurrection at the time of resurrection the body is going to instantaneously decompose and from that point on it's going to be resurrected that being said what about the people who are live at the actual time of resurrection it's one thing when you're talking about people who have already died and either decompose and anybody who constricted or they haven't decomposed and they'll need to be instructed what about the people who are alive at the time when the world becomes perfected through resurrection what's going to happen to them so the Tsar in partially sputtering discusses this and says the following doors are says based on the verse I caused death and bring life the zora comments until this moment death was brought about via the other side of the Citra huh from this time on meaning from the time of resurrection forward I will cause death and give life meaning from the time of resurrection all those would not experience the taste of death and we're still alive at the time of resurrection will experience death directly from God not from the citraratha so their death is going to be a holy death not caused by the salt on by the it's Ahura by the forces of impurity by the Citra but rather God is going to intervene and arbitrarily bring death a positive type of death on anybody who remains alive at the time of resurrection and then they're gonna rise immediately back to life why they why the Czar asked is it necessary that those living at the time should experience momentary death there's no answers in order that no impurity will remain in the world and there will be a new world brought about to the workings of the Holy One blessed be he so even the people are alive at the time of resurrection I have to undergo an instantaneous death and an immediate resurrection those who merit being resurrected in order to join the community of the resurrected an interesting point the last and final topic that we want to cover is the question about non-jews where do non-jews fit into all this we know that the Torah has and prescribes a way for non-jews in order to connect to God and to a chain attain holiness the Torah has 613 laws for the Jews and has seven laws for non-jews these laws are applicable to the Gentiles and a Gentile who lives his life according to these laws whether he does what he's supposed to or refrains from transgressing what he's not supposed doing he's considered to be a righteous Gentile and he even gets according to the Gomora a portion in the world to come the question is what world to come are we talking about are we talking about the world to come where the soul remains after after death in heaven but no more or would we say that the non Jew even merit the final stage which is resurrection in the merit of being a righteous Gentile would a non Jew therefore merit actually getting to world to come part two which is the world of resurrection or not so here we have an interesting source and that is the Midrash in Bray she's Robert chapter 13 Ravi Ababa says that in his comparing reign to resurrection he says that reign a day of rain is actually better than the day of resurrection why he says because he says rain benefits both animals and humans everybody drives benefit from rain but resurrection only humans a day of rain is better than their resurrection why because if they have rained benefits Jews and non-jews but the day of resurrection benefits only the Jews so from the Midrash it would seem that even though there is an idea of there being a righteous Gentile one who observes the seven Noahide laws even if he attains the world to come that would be applying to the world to come meaning the sole world heaven where the soul would go after the person dies but to go so far as to be resurrected that no that's what it would seem however one of the commentaries there in the Midrash the f800r says that that's not the case it's not excluding non-jews from resurrection why then he asks does the text say a day of rain is better than a day of resurrection because resurrection applies only to Jews what he means to say is it applies only to people who are living like Jews only people are living like Jews in those times you had Jews who were observant of God's laws and you had non-jews that were idolaters but if you have a scenario where non-jews are living according to the dictates of God they would become like Jews right not they become Jewish but the point is they have a relationship with God they are connecting with God they are fulfilling the will of God and they are refraining from transgressing God's will so they become like Jews insofar as they are connected to God since they are fulfilling their purpose for creation they are perfecting themselves each person according what he's supposed to a Jew is a Jew and non-jew is a non Jew then anybody who is Jewish meaning anybody was a Jew anybody who is living his life by connecting to God a Jew is a Jew in a non Jew is a non Jew either one will be resurrected right by this token what that means then is that when it says non-jews will not be resurrected it's not just referring specifically to non-jews it's referring to anybody who's living his life as a non Jew which would mean yeah that even Jews who are not living a life which connects them to God will not be resurrected and that makes perfect sense that's absolutely true a person who for example Jew lives his life according to righteousness will merit resurrection a person who does not well not and therefore that seems to the accepted opinion that it's not so much a function of whether person is Jewish or not the extent to which a person is connected to God or not the person connected to God whether Jewish or not will merit resurrection person is not connected to God whether he's Jewish or not right well not these are also makes a simpler teaching the Zorin parses value chevre implies that the idolatrous nations of the world will not be resurrected and since he says the idolatrous nations of the world will be resurrected that implies the idolatrous members of the nations will not be resurrected but the non idolatrous monotheistic believing members of the nations will be certainly that's true regarding their know heights whether that would apply for let's say Christians or Muslims insofar as their beliefs and practices over over law overlap with those of the Noahide laws they might merit or they might not it's my understanding that they would not but rather what will happen is that over time the monotheistic religions of Islam will say Christianity in Islam will be brought into line they themselves will bring into line their beliefs and practices according to the teachings in the Torah for non-jews as well so that ultimately Christians and Muslims will become Noah heights in the pure sense not just that they happen to follow the Noahide laws in the name of a particular prophet let's say Jesus or Muhammad but rather because they understand that that was conveyed by God through Moses to them directly and therefore they will bring their beliefs in line with the beliefs of Judaism and that would fit it would be in accord with what the Rambam says is that the rise of Christianity in Islam and their proliferation is part of the divine plan to wean humanity away from idolatry towards monotheism in order for them alternately to prepare and in receipt prepare themselves in and be willing to receive the teachings in the Torah for non-jews so that Christian and Islam are just a transitionary phase a passing phase which will bring all of the non-jews who are willing into the path of the Noahide laws another source for this that non Jews righteous non-jews will be resurrected as the barber knelt in his work called money and sure and he writes that the resurrection will apply to all of mankind not only to Jews and he brings two reasons for this he says number one all of the Dead will be resurrected one so that the righteous will receive the reward that's deserving of them they deserve and two so that those who don't deserve it will slow roll rise to see that they didn't because plenty of people say who says God exists who says it matters to God whether you do X Y or Z so at the time resurrection they're gonna be resurrected as well to see it makes a difference only they're gonna be left out as they excluded themselves they'll be left out but this implies even if it's in a negative sense that Jews and non-jews will also be resurrected some will be in and some will be out second reason is that non of the nations the idolatrous nations will realize the folly of their beliefs their beliefs and the result of that there will be a great proclamation of the unity and glory of God's name because all of those idolatrous nations and all of those oppressors of the Jews will ultimately be resurrected in order to see that the despised and oppressed people are actually in fact the people of God conveying the message of God to the rest of humanity for their benefit humanity chose to close their ears to that message of benefit and even went further to persecute and annihilate the Jewish people so they will be resurrected to see the folly of their actions so according to this then resurrection will apply to Jews and non-jews as long as a person was righteous and tried to connect to God in the case of non-jews probably more specifically if the person consciously led his life as a no hide this concludes our discussion on resurrection does understand the ideas that we discussed here in resurrection will provide a platform for going one level higher into this Odyssey into the spiritual realm where we're discussing in the next two parts the actual world to come what's the world going to be like after resurrection and that will be the continuation series tomorrow you