Questions tagged [olam-haba-world-to-come]
Questions pertaining to Olam Haba - The World to Come
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How can using the bathroom be equated to the pleasure of the afterlife?
There are three things which are a taste of the World to Come: Shabbat, the sun, and “usage.” What does “usage” mean? Usage of the bed [i.e. marital relations]? But that weakens the body. Rather it ...
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Chayei olam: "everlasting life" or "long life"?
I am an Italian noahide.
I see that, in the translations of the Tanakh and of the Hebrew sources in general edited by Jews , the expression "chayei olam" is constantly rendered with "...
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How do we know the maternal line is pure?
This question may seem abstract and strange, but it is genuine.
We obviously don't have ketubot of every marriage and certificates of every conversion, but yet, our assumption is that the Jewish ...
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what are the rewards for the righteous in Olam Haba?
I am looking for some sources from chazal on what rewards await the righteous in olam haba (the afterlife). preferably some kind of comprehensive treatise rather than bits and pieces.
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Need source of a quote
"In this world, we suffer because we are Jewish. In the World to Come, we will suffer because we are not Jewish enough."
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Seeking source for story of someone who communicates from the next world about concepts not understood in this world
There is a story of 2 great Rabbis who made a pact between themselves that whoever died first would come back in a dream and tell the other one why certain bad things happened in the world. But when ...
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Chofetz Chaim Story
Asking for someone else:
In the Artscroll "Pirkei Avos Treasury" they bring a story on the mishnah "All Israel has a share in Olam Haba." Someone asked the Chofetz Chaim if all ...
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How to write לע''נ when the father is alive
I understand that usually you write:
לע''נ
Joe
בן
Shmo
ז''ל
when you dedicate something in honer of someone who passed away
But if the father is alive would you do still the same? Sources please
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In what sense will the world to come be a Shabbat?
In Birkat Hamazon, we (Ashkenazim...I haven't looked at other texts) add a line on Shabbat, "הַרָחֲמָן הוּא יַנְחִילֵנוּ יוֹם שֶׁכֻּלוֹ שַׁבָּת וּמְנוּחָה לְחַיֵּי הָעוֹלָמִים" which translates to "...
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Promising someone Paradise
In Avoda Zarah 18a:
The Executioner then said to him (Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon), 'Rabbi,
if I raise the flame and take away the tufts of wool from over your
heart, will you bring me into the ...
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Guaranteed entry to Olam HaBah
I learned from a rabbi that, if you live to see the 4th generation, your great-grandchildren, you automatically get into Olam HaBah. I love this idea. I know that all of Israel gets in - but this ...
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Rambam's position regarding the unification of souls in the afterlife (Guide to the Perplexed-First Part Chapter 74 seventh argument)
In his Guide to the Perplexed-First Part Chapter 74 seventh argument, Rambam says:
You must bear in mind that those abstract beings which are neither bodies nor forces dwelling in bodies, and which in ...
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Why doesn't Dor Hamabul deserve the World to Come?
The Mishna (Sanhedrin 10) states that Dor Hamabul do not have a part in the world to come:
דּוֹר הַמַּבּוּל אֵין לָהֶם חֵלֶק לָעוֹלָם הַבָּא וְאֵין עוֹמְדִין בַּדִּין
The generation of the flood ...
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Did the ancient Rabbanim believe that the spirits of the dead walked the Earth?
In the Midrashim I noticed that Rabbanim keep mentioning events in which the Rabbi would be walking along and come across a man doing some task and it would turn out to be the spirit of a dead man who ...
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Bet HaMikdash and Olam Haba - Rambam
If, as the Rambam says, Olam Haba is something that comes after the days of Mashiach and the ressurrection of the dead, and if it is a completely spiritual reality - as I read in his Treatise on ...
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Reward in this life for some and the world to come for others?
Does God reward in life whom he omnisciently knows will not do teshuvah in the face of the few good deeds he has done not to argue after he has given them nothing for the good deeds? At the same time, ...
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Do you get into olam haba if you do not celebrate shabbat, eat pig, basically disregard Judaism?
Do you? I mean like do nothing?
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Do shedim receive schar?
Given that shedim can either do good or bad and are intelligent, speaking creations in this world, can they be punished and rewarded? Do they have mitzvos? Will they exist in olam haba?
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What's the purpose of the body in/after resurrection?
Following "what-is-the-purpose-of-tchiat-hametim", the Gemmorah says:
העולם הבא אין בו לא אכילה ולא שתיה ולא פריה ורביה ולא משא ומתן ולא קנאה ולא שנאה ולא תחרות אלא צדיקים יושבין ועטרותיהם ...
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How does the olam haba of a Noahide differ from that of a Jew?
In other words, what precise reasons would motivate a gentile to convert rather than be a Noahide? I have heard that a Jew's olam haba is “better” but in what sense? What exactly is the difference?
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Who is eligible for the World to Come?
The Mishna says:
He who maintains that the resurrection of the dead is not derived from the Torah, he who says that the Torah is not from Heaven, and an apikoros, have no share in the World to Come....
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