Rabbi Eli Mansour: Tehiyat Hametim Why is it a Fundamental Principle of Faith?

uh thank you Mori for the very generous uh introduction andak for that you're doing for the OU and cl I still got a tuition bill this month so I'm still waiting for uh for results I know you're working on it but uh my kids are getting older uh want to thank uh Jacob gold for sponsoring the sh and all my good friends at the uh the OU the president Mo ban congratulations on the new appointment um I was uh given a topic to speak about uh that is which literally means the resurrection of the Dead meim I think it's appropriate uh that the backdrop of where I'm speaking today at City field has the word met uh superimposed all over this uh this board here so I appreciate that they made this special backdrop for my class today and some will say that the team that occupies this building needs as [Laughter] well uh that being said uh very very interesting topic uh be honest with you it wouldn't have been my choice to speak about it I never really went into it uh but as a result of preparing for the sh I did come across uh some interesting things about this topic first and foremost as an introduction my man is Haram in a classic it's a mustre is his interpretation to the mishna he wrote a per to all the M he actually wrote it in Arabic uh later on they would translate it into lashes like many of the books of Haram as a matter of fact many of the books of the Old seim were written in Arabic when I studied in lakew Yeshiva I used to spend a lot of time in the library and I used to look at old books and I found an old copy of of also written in Arabic in the original of course our families uh come from Aleppo and although I don't read Arabic of course but my grandparents were able to do that anyway in this it's in you could find at the end of San after the G is finished goes through the 13 principles of Faith you find an Abridged version of them probably your it says Etc and there's 13 of them and we're told that we must believe in these principles the 13th of these principles writes and then he writes two words he says I'm not going to go into an elaboration of it I explained it already which didn't do me too much help uh I thought he'd give me the per so I had to go searching in other places of my man's works to see exactly what he says about it but what caught my eye is is at the end of all the 13 principles once a person accepts upon himself that he believes in these 13 foundations of Judaism and his becomes conclusive is now he has entered the ranks of Isel of authentic Judaism and now he gets all the perks of being Jewish you have to love him you have to have mercy upon him all the uh amenities that you get by being Jewish that one Jew must afford to his friend if he believes in the 13 he's part of the group and then he writes and even if he commits other sins because he has lust which means is telling you if you believe in the 13 you're in and let's say a person believes in the 13 but he eats cheeseburgers he can't control himself it's something that uh he hasn't conquered yet or he's uh he speaks terrible sins but har says those sins do not cause you to become a Defector person has t he has a desire he cannot control himself he's going to need to make immediately but he's still considered part of the ranks where is if he keeps all the mitv of the Torah but he's in contempt of one of the 133 and I quote I mind you this is Ram that is touted to be the middle of the road you know uh he's portrayed to be the tolerant one you know and the one that has a you know tremendous uh uh uh God forbid in a liberal way and then he comes along and he says if the person God forbid has one of these principles become decrepit he has left the CL and he's considered a denier of the God why you know that's a word that you hear AOS when we were in high school you know and our science teacher was telling us something about uh you know I don't it must have been Evolution or something we were kids you know and we were always told when you hear that word you have to say the word you have to say AOS so he started telling us about something and we said you know apikoros and the science I know what an aporus was I've been called that by uh we got to take it back but says if you don't believe in the 13 principles you're AOS you're a mean you're a you have left a CL and he goes on to say it's aah to despise such a person and all the perks that we're supposed to get as Jews he loses them even if he keeps all the he keeps he eats only he sits and reads to all day long he goes to sh with his tet over his head he shakes back and forth but that will not make him Jewish if he's in contempt of one of the principles which means I'm not going to go through the principles today obviously we came to talk about but this is a very poor overview you can't believe in something un unless you know them so I would say before you study the you have to study the 13 principles of Judaism and then you have to test yourself and say do I believe in this is is this something that uh is important to me is this is this considered one of my values and it's not enough to believe will tell you you have to believe it has to be a complete belief which means one of these things uh he's going to tell you over here is let's say uh you must believe that every p in the Tor was given by God and written uh you know through mosu M did not write anything on his own everything was dictated by God and M only was the secretary to write down the word of God that's a principle and somebody comes along and says well listen I uh I believe in everything but I believe this one word this one word in the word it it's an auxiliary word that one word I have a theory that Moshe added it and he's wearing a hat and he wears all the white clothes and he has seats sticking out and he wears two and his wife sits home all day long baking and doing all and backwards all the stuff that people do that considers them religious and he just says I believe in everything and he's devout but he just says this one word it which is an auxiliary word doesn't make a difference here or there really it's just a filler word I think MH eded it on his own but besides that I agree with every everything Haram says he's a Defector he's considered out of the ranks with all his stringencies and all his religious you know theor he's considered a mean and AOS and a wow so again I say uh there should be a movement in teaching the 13 principles of Judaism and then there should be another movement to convince the student that these uh principles are uh binding and that we must believe in them in now according to these are not up for debate this is not up for a a discussion uh do we believe in it or not the 13th is that the dead at a certain point are going to be resurrected although he doesn't write it he doesn't write it he says so I searched a little and I actually found great controversy Haram dedicated an entire letter Raam is known for his letters his igot he writes an and he calls it the and what's the purpose of the letter it's because he had a student in Damascus that got up in public and said I studied haram's works and I have concluded based on my Moni that he does not believe in writes in this letter originally I thought he's an outcasted student and I don't have to respond to every student that's going to misconstrue my words after all he's battel he's B he's a he's nullified in the minority I don't have to answer every person that's going to you know misconstrue my words but then he says I was told that there's others that have made the same mistake so he dedicates an entire uh composition an essay to defend his position and he goes on to say God forbid of course I believe in I wrote it in the 13 principles in and over there I said if you don't believe in it you God forb he but I know why they misinterpreted me because haram's opinion was that the resurrection is not the final uh stage believed that the dead will be resurrected for a certain period of time the world will continue to exists as it exists now that's after the world continues we eat we drink we conduct ourselves it'll just be a more spiritual word with mashia being the leader and then at a certain point everybody perishes again and from there we go to a different world that's called and that's a world of and that's where the G says there's no eating and there's no drinking and there's no physical pleasure and sadim sit with crowns on the head and they just benefit from and that's the world of the G of the reward so has two different stages he has the which will last until whenever and he's doesn't like to go into details himself says listen time will tell who's right and who's wrong on their positions on what's going to happen we'll wait and see and then we'll decide because it's not pivotal to ra to know the details of it he says if you if you if you deny the details of it what's going to happen first what's going to happen second that's not going to make a person a but you must believe in the resurrection when it's going to happen and how it's going to happen anyway his opinion was that is the precursor so because he played it down because he put something ahead of team they understood was saying he doesn't really believe in it it's just straight to and the resurrection is uh is secondary and from becoming secondary became tertiary and from becoming tertiary became non-existent so the students of course embellished haram's opinion and the student has the brazenness to come along and say and all those PIM in the Tor in the prophets I mean that talk about Resurrection Haram says it's only a Mas it's only allegory and it's only a um a parable is very angry in the letter he says Shalom he says of course I do agree that certain should be read allegorically and he goes on the list some of them he says but the resurrection is not one of them on the contrary the resurrection is going to happen like the like the sun rises and he says you know woe to these students that have misinterpreted me and I was clear enough that it should be understood but nonetheless then he goes on to to explain it and then he says and if you suspect me for not believing in Resurrection go look at what I wrote in my in in the third chapter my writes in his own words these are the people that do not have eternity they have lost their share and he lists 24 different people again all party excluded but I would recommend you to read that list as well uh just in case you know God forbid some of your friends that might uh you have to warn them har is very very severe if if you if you are part of these 24 groups you're out I don't care how much and how much you're going to ingest you're going to have a problem getting into the door you won't even get into the door and what's one of them he says so he said says I wrote that if you don't believe in you lose your and this guy from Damascus is going to come say that I said is one big allegory it's one big Mas so let's put that to rest nobody should make that mistake in what haram's opinion is haram's opinion is it is a reality you must believe in it uh it's it's the only thing says is it's not the final stop on the train and there's where ran nak these argues ran says no it's the final stop B says there's going to be a resurrection and we're going to get reward and all that stuff that they tell us in it's going to be with our physical bodies and it's going to be a world where we don't have to eat anymore and drink God's going to you know the body is going to become spiritual like the and you're not going to need all those physical Pleasures to exist and you're going to be able to uh exist through spirituality and so on and so so there's a big argument here is in Soul that's myties or is in in body that's notties but everybody says there's going to be a first there's a third opinion of the can I I I don't want to spend too much time on the opinions because like theam said you know we could argue this from here to tomorrow and we'll wait till it happens and then oh the ran was right oh the ran was right and and he'll be happy to concede to the ran because he says it's not it's not important to know the order of things to know the schedule what's going to happen first what's going to happen second is going to be a world of souls that's details it's important to believe it's going to happen what time on the schedule is going to happen IMM material ACC to myties says there's going to be two teams okay there'll be a in the times of and then everybody go back down again and then there'll be one before come back over there in the look at that he goes into his his theory as well now would I struggle if I were to be teaching this to college kids let's say they would have a hard time convincing their professor at Harvard or wherever they study that there's going to be a resurrection because that goes against obviously all science how could we explain Resurrection if a body dies uh there is no scientific proof that a body will uh you know come back it's dead it's met but in uh in college they do accept they do accept precedent if we could show a precedent even if it's in a different area but we could show the concept exists in some some realm so then you can't discount the concept and say well it's impossible well if we could show a precedent somewhere else we could then say well look it happened over there so why can't it happen over here just extrapolate a little and stretch your brains uh I would say to the scientist or to the professor well if you go outside now and look at the trees you you'll see the trees look pretty dead uh no leaves no Greenery uh and they don't look like uh they have any life this time of year uh the trees are dormant they have no fruits and they are uh lifeless but wait a few months and all of a sudden you'll start to see the first buds coming out of the trees now our rabbis established a blessing in the month of Nissan that when you see the first buds come out of a tree you must make and I was wondered is that the uh is that the most uh important thing pleasure of life that you must make a blessing on a new Blossom I'm not underestimating it or undervaluing it but to go out of your way to find a tree or two trees and to make a special unless were trying to give us an imagery of what and that tree that you thought was very dead and that tree that you thought was lifeless and that tree that you thought would never Sprout again you see the icicles hanging from the uh from the tips of the tree and all of a sudden you see a bud come out that is it's not of a human being but it's in a tree and all of a sudden a month later there's green and there's fruit hanging and that same tree will die again six months later and then be resurrected so in that sense there's a precedent the world the nature of the world constantly uh goes through a uh hibernation during the winter and then resurrects itself there's a resurrection during the Spring and I would imagine I could tell the Professor also by the way not that I'm obligated to to get into a debate with the professor I could just say it's a miracle but he doesn't believe in miracles you see if I would to tell them it's something against nature they said no we don't believe we cannot put that under a microscope we cannot uh we don't have studies on Miracles so they have to go a different route to to convince him I'm not saying anybody here needs to be convinced either but I think it's important to know these talking points that if you ever come in contact with somebody that might be a little skeptical and and we don't want a person to remain skeptic we want him to become a Believer so we have to try to make it easier for him to accept it we have to make it palatable just oh it's a miracle I don't believe in miracles so if we could try to draw him closer to the principle by giving him examples from uh nature well the other example I would give him is if anybody ever planted a uh tomato patch in the summer we do it in deal we plant uh you know tomatoes in our backyard and basically we take a seed and we throw it in the ground we bury it in the ground just like we bury the dead in the ground the seed is we don't make a Le obviously but we bury him in the ground it's no ceremony and I'm told again I I don't know it to be I didn't see with my own eyes but I'm told that the way the seed begins to grow it's first it decays the seed decomposes first and when it finally reaches the level of decomposition where it's almost no no longer all of a sudden it starts to now grow so every seed before it grows dies first to a certain degree and then all of a sudden it grow now the the the case of the tomato is even more incredible than because says one body is put in the ground and one body comes out in tomatoes you put one seed in the ground and you get a whole uh whole family of tomatoes so if we wanted to see a Mas from you know nature as you say there you go anytime you plan something the fact that the ground is able to produce now I'll tell you the fact why don't we get excited from that because we're used to it so if somebody would say tomatoes that grow no no no well let's look at the reverse let's think it revers let's say was a natural event let's say that was the thing people die and then a month later they come out of the ground and they come back home again let's say that was a normal procedure after people die takes a month and everybody knows hang out in the cemetery you'll see people popping up all day long and they just go back home and it's it's a month until they resurface well we would be very uh used to it nobody would think anything of it but let's say growing tomatoes was not and somebody would tell you listen you could take this seed put it in the ground and in a month you can get 50 Tomatoes ah come on don't don't what are you talking over here it's all depending on what you used to so since we're used to this form of of tomatoes it becomes oh mother nature natural expected but if we would get used to the other one so I think God gives us these uh examples in life in order for us to train our minds to get a little closer to the belief uh I have a synagogue in Brooklyn synagogue is on Ocean Parkway and avue R when I wanted to prove to some of the college students in a Wednesday night class that we have and you know again some of them are skeptical some of them are critical they're taught critical thinking in college you know to challenge everything no problem we have to have answers for them so I said the boys I'm going to prove you now and I pointed uh across the street from our synagogue out the window I said right over there you see it and they're all looking I said look good look good you see it now right across the street from our synagogue in Brooklyn is a Yeshiva called the Mir Yeshiva yeshivat Mir I said there you go there's the there's your proof said what are you talking about now we're so we're not so keen on the history of you know we wouldn't be able to find miror on a map uh but we know the history uh you know the history uh more I'm sure it's a bad bad piece of history when the Nazis came into Germany and Germany and Poland all that region Europe besides the decimation of of humans of the Six Million besides that I'm not minimizing that but there was a concentrated effort to destroy the Tor of Europe and they went from Yeshiva to Yeshiva and they burnt it and they tortured and they burnt books on the night of Crystal alone they burnt a thousand synagogues not a thousand stles a thousand prestigious synagogues and one of the yeshivas that went into Exile was the M Yeshiva with all its students with all its books with all it now if you went in in Nazi Germany or Europe in the N mid 1940s and you said there's going to be a Resurgence of Tor and the Mira will flourish again say do me a favor do me a favor it's an end of an era Tor is never going to flourish in CL Isel it's ped it's dead Hitler killed it it's finished he nailed the the final nail in the coffin Tor will never exist in America it'll never you'll never have a Russia shiv again you have studying of the talmud again and if I was around I probably would have bet on the side that it's dead and it's never going to be resurrected I could I I would bet more that a uh an apple will grow from a tree after The Long Winter but I would not bet that uh T would flourish again and like a phoenix that comes uh comes out of the fire today you have the Mir in Brooklyn that's our neighbor and you have 5 600 students coming in and out every day studying Tor and then you go to Israel and you have the Mira that they call it over there I don't know there's 78,000 students I'm just giving you an example in history where you see things are resurrected things that we thought are very dead and will'll never have another you know uh uh uh spot on Center Stage and they have reappeared and they've resurfaced and some will argue maybe not in the same uh quality certainly not the same quality there's a degeneration but quantitatively T has resurged and flourished get in America so again in history you see again that's just to make it palatable to the ear that if I see it here and I see it here and I see so stretch your brain it can happen to the human as well and now I go back to probably the first person in history to ever introduce the concept of Resurrection before for him I don't think it was well known this man actually made a very very uh bold uh purchase and as a result of that purchase he was making a bold statement on Resurrection and that is none other than abah Abu of course AB Abu went to Ephron who had a piece of real estate Inon we know it as the the is one of the holiest sites for us I'm unable to go to is without visiting I cannot a trip is incomplete unless I go visit the graad of the aot as a matter of fact I was just an edit about a month ago and I did something uh that I consider myself and my son lucky that we did it and I never heard too many people do it you know when we B Mitzvah our children most people mitv their children by the Cel and makes a lot of sense I was B mitv by the Cel 1982 it's a great and I thank my parents all the time for that opportunity but we all have such a connection to the my son Jacob just got and I told him we're going to take you to the graves of the A and we made his the week that Abu bought the cave at the grave of yobu and to see my son yob and his namesake yov and you take a picture BYU incredible incredible and you say this was bought I don't know 3,500 years ago by Abu and he paid a heck of a lot of money so the Mal beam the Mal Beam on this piece comes along and says what was Abraham doing he says in the olden days they buried their dead but temporarily just until they decayed and once they decayed they would you know reenter the body and take the bones and the whatever was left and just you know discard them there was no such thing as a cemetery there was no such thing as a permanent burial it didn't exist why would there be if there's no afterlife if there's no Resurrection so then burying becomes uh uh uh it's a it's a non-event why would we waste money to bury something it's waste so yes maybe out of respect we just put it on the ground till it decays but why waste ground we would dig it up again and then discard in the ocean or just burn it or cremation which is very common to people that don't believe in Resurrection he says in those days nobody believed in purchasing a permanent plot and here comes Abu so ifon says yeah take take the plot because he didn't know say take the plot go bury your dead thinking that he'll bury s and then a month later un and uh everybody lives happily after comes no I want a permanent place and it has to be prestigious and Eon is going to tell what are you talking about and listen to how much ink was spilled on this episode I mean a lot of words uh written in the T about this purchase although it could have been written in one and went to bought but spells a lot of ink so he says why he says why did give the details of this transaction made an effort in order to instill into the hearts of the Nations a Cornerstone from the cornerstones of Judaism that the soul and the body will live on also the bodies are sleeping in the ground will wake up and the are going to get up dressed dressed means over not in physical clothes it means their body their physical body will come back that's going to be the clothes that they come back in their physical body will be reinstated and he goes on to say that they believe the not GNA live again it's over there's no more judgments you only bury somebody temporarily you don't want to embarrass the family by letting the body Decay so out of respect to the living you bury the body till it decays after that they would empty out the grave made sure that this was done in front of all the landsmen and he gave a lot of money for this they got the it's the first one to buy a permanent resident for a m and think about it a lot of the rituals that rituals that we do including burying a met in shrouds why would we bury in shrouds I don't think there's a dress code 6 feet under the ground uh 6 feet under the ground I don't think uh even the most strict of POS would say you know under the ground there's no rules so why do we bury in shrouds and the zor clearly writes because we believe that when they come up at least they should have something that they're wearing there should be a dress so just that simple practice of implies to us that there's going to be a time where these meim are going to come back now I go into some uh some detail of it I found an incredible uh incredible zor kados the zor kados wres that there's a certain bone in the body that is uh is so strong it's like Kryptonite it's unable to Decay where all the limbs in a person's body are not free from Decay they can Decay into dust but there's one little bone in the body that remains forever the gar actually calls that the bone of lse the lose bone another place calls it actually the bone and the zorad writes a different name for that bone that's what I want to read to you the zor kados writes that there's a certain a bone in the spine it remains in the the grave everything decays except his bone and it's name it's called remember so when we see we know that's the you know the the that's 's father that's uh you know and two tricksters but when the zorad sees the world it sees this bone and it goes on to say that this is the bone where Resurrection will begin and it gives you the details it says this bone will remain and God will take a certain uh a certain do tal because you need to make a a d you have three ingredients you have the the the bones that decayed you have the bone that didn't Decay the loose bone or the B bone and now you need water so there's a certain water that's called the of the in another place says where is that du come from uh I don't know if you're can accept it but this is what it says in the books when a person learns T is some saliva especially if you're in the front row there's some uh uh the Splash Zone is in the front uh front row there's some saliva that comes out of the mouths of the sikim when they learn and they say that that's the the the uh the liquid that God uses uh in order to resurrect whatever that means you say well when I learn I don't spit you still have a resurrection it's scratch that from the from from the Das I'm just telling you what I so brought down anyway it says God's going to mix all the components together and from the loose bone the rest of the body is going to form so that bone is integral where is it when we were in Yeshiva We Were Young they told us the top of the the top of the spine okay if that's it then I accept I'm not a uh you know a an expert in the anatomy of these bones here you'll have to ask your uh you know uh bone doctor whoever it may be but nonetheless nonetheless there was a great Rabbi called y he authored his own sidur called it bet yob it's a great sidur because it gives commentary and he has commentary on Shabbat introduction to the of the fourth and in this paragraph over here he says I quote a little he says I looked in the books and I see I see all this lose business and some call it and then he says it says in the books he adds a fact that that bone gets no nourishment from any food that you eat the only nourishment it deres is from the food that you eat in the so he goes on to say and they [Music] say and they say that the the human is going to be resurrected from that and it's the only bone that remains in the grave after the decay of the Resurrection will begin from the L or theone he says and even more shocking and he quotes it's called the crook they said in the because this bone is a crook because it doesn't eat it's a crook he explains because all the limbs eat and when you're eating during the week this bone gives the impression that it's benefiting but it is really not benefiting it is only benefiting from what's eaten on Shabbat so it's aay it behaves like all the other limbs it gives the impression like it's like everybody else that doesn't want to stand down but it's anay because when it's in your body it doesn't really benefit only from one meal a week and then he says he says when you see this you you are nothing less than shocked what is what is so he goes on to say he says you know why it's said amay it said amay when you're alive and it said amay when the person's dead when the person's alive it gives the impression like it's everybody else but it really doesn't have any nutrients except say sh and when the person dies it gives the impression like it's like every other bone but it's really not because it doesn't lend itself to Decay so it's an he says if you take the word the numerical value of B is 439 the numerical value of met me is 440 so he writes it's one less is one less than ma because it does never reach ma it never reaches death because it's excluded from so the uh met minus one as we'll call it so the way the Tora calls that is the trickster where did it trick he says that when When Death came to the world after Hab and Adam ate from the tree I say Hab cuz she ate first but nonetheless habam brought death to the World by eating and it says that that poisonous food that was given to them went into all their limbs but good news when did they eat it they ate it Friday afternoon good thing they didn't eat it from Ala Mala they ate it Friday afternoon so all the limbs benefited but the the limb of the L did not benefit from that Aon and therefore it was never subject to the sin of death because it never got involved in that and therefore that's where the resurrection it never was subject to the of so it said am it tricked the snake the snake said H if I can get the them to eat it it'll go through all their limbs and after they ate the snake says ha and the or the e bone says to the to you all that you gave us to eat this bone is free from it and then he comes along and says that this the reason why it only benefits from is because it's the only meal during the week that a person eats most people would skip the fourth of Shabbat especially uh in the summer exactly we eat she at 8:30 in the synagogue at 9:30 nobody's interested in having a lavis washing for bread so he writes when a person makes the extra effort to go wash from that is eating it only because the Tora says you have to eat it or the rabbis or however you want to learn it's a you're eating it only for the sake of mitvah so it's a spiritual eating so when people come to oh I can't eat that's the goal if you feel like that that's you've succeeded then then the the the lose bone is going to take a a big portion in it and that's why our great Rabbi called Ben he has a very important on you see we could talk about from here to tomorrow my purpose is you believe in it everybody believes in it so you're part of you know the M now basically you know the m you know the ramifications if you don't believe in it and now you know where it's going to start from so then what is this CL me we came to talk philosophy then but no there's a that comes out of this if you believe in all this and you believe that the bone that Resurrection begins is to lose so you have to accept upon yourself as a result of this class of not uh uh anything else but to eat me Mala that has to be the takeaway what did the rabbi talk about leave the philosophy ran and RAM andv when and how all that stuff like ra says when it happens we'll see who was right but what does it mean to me today how does it impact my life this talk impacts the life is next month Shabbat when the comes and tells you n don't wash don't eat don't pass skip it no this is not a meal for the stomach on the contrary if your stomach is not in the mood that's when the meal is actually even more valuable so the great Rabbi writes and I'll conclude with this he says on the he says the ladder in's dream he says the ladder it's it was on the ground well I guess the legs of the latter are on the ground but he said there's certain things in life that people mistreat them they're thrown to the ground because they don't realize their real value but their real value is and what is one of those items what Islam he says sulam is an acronym he says the to most people it's mistreated it's not given the proper Credence it's not given the proper value but and uh if we believe in Resurrection one of the ways you could prove it to your children is by having that's the way you you prove it when you sit down and you explain to the kids why we eating this in order to give sustenance to the lose boy and then you explained it to them and you explained to them this is the cryptonite in the human body and we're giving it fortification so when God resurrects this same body will come back what a lesson and that's why we call it David because DAV David represents this concept ofay of Eternity the blessing in the the Second [Music] Blessing one thought if I have this cup of water here and I am not sure if I made a well in this case it's easy I'll ask did I make you did not but let's say I'm alone and I legitimately have a doubt if I made a this glass of water what's the rule we have a famous rule it's a rule we say every time this a a person comes out of the bathroom a person comes out of the bathroom he know did he say the rabbis are so strict if you have a doubt better do not say the if you say God's name in vain it's a very very severe sin one of the Ten Commandments the whole world shook when that command was given and therefore the are very very uh very cous by allowing somebody to make a that might not be necessary I have the same cup of water 99% I think I didn't make the bar 1% I think I did Sabal that's what Sabal is Sabal is not only a 50/50 Sabal is if you have the remote doubt that you made this do not make it why am I telling you this we make a if there was a doubt that there's going to be Resurrection even if it would be a half a percent the rabbis would say listen how can we say so when we say the the fact that we make a blessing on it shows that hazal did not it wasn't a 9010 and it wasn't a 991 and it wasn't a 99.8 point2 this was something that was a 100% conclusive foregone conclusion that there's going to be a that's something that uh can serve as a consolation to many people that have lost loved ones it's the way of life the greatest consolation is that it's temporary that these deceased especially the good people they will come back and the Z says they come back in their Prime they leave all their disabilities behind they leave all their sicknesses behind all their ailments are behind and they come back in a perfect specimen in theia now that has to be consult in so not only is a principle of Faith but it's a very important consolatory uh uh way to tell people that God forbid lost somebody that it's a temporary loss have it's like somebody that went away on a vacation do we say that they they're gone of course not they went away for a few a few months or a boy goes to study in Israel for the year he's still alive it's the same concept it's a temporary departure and that's why we don't say met when somebody passes on we say Nar niftar means well in modern Hebrew Nar means he retired somebody retires from the bankar doesn't mean he died he retired from Life there was one Rabbi who passed away in gerba in Tunis Saadi Rabbi his name was RA if anybody ever was in you lived in so there's a road was a rabbi from Tunis he was a gaon anyway when he passed away the guy who wrote the tombstone was inis and on the tombstone he writes po now we don't we don't use the word met CU met implies final we always use the word you know if you look at the and I will sleep with my fathers it's just resting we called the those that are sleeping in the in the dust we never use the word m it's a heavy MIT sounds like it's final anyway the guy writes on of's grave perit so of comes to him in a dream and says what did you do we believe in how could you write go fix it so he goes and again he he didn't wake up a from that dream he goes to the to to the cemetery in in Tunis still there I saw pictures of the grave and he writes like a a tree next to the word uh met and he adds the word on top l so it says P that's what it has on his and the truth of the matter is he's right when you go to a cemetery we call the cemetery bet which is very interesting it's so you don't want to say but it's wrong it's because I conclude again I didn't see am I missing the five minute Mark I missed it already you forgive me you forgive me so much things happen in this press conference room I'm I'm a big Yankee fan so I want to take advantage of all to undo all the all the good news the bets gave from this table to undo with so I'm not done yet uh anyway V writes in in his seph called in a sh that he calls over there he writes that when a person passes away there's always something that's called hav hav is there's a certain life that remains 99% of the life leaves but a certain life remains there's some Life In The Grave according to it's called and that's why you could talk to theim and you could communicate with them because that is enough life it's like a battery that's still has a little voltage like a car battery that dies there's enough voltage that if you spark it it'll it'll catch that's called so actually the cemetery is a that even six feet under there's still life at that spot will be fulfilled on us the the second