# Orthodox Jewish afterlife (was Re: Scylla & Oreb)

*The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 22 Apr 2002*

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### Adam Stephanides
*22 Apr 2002, 03:02*

> on 4/20/02 7:13 AM, Alice K. Turner at aturner6 at nyc.rr.com wrote:
> These had much
> to do with life after death, and (I gather) there was at the time some
> question as to whether this would be sequential (a la Hindu) or permanent.
> The conservative Saducee party together with every orthodox (small o) Jewish
> party for the last two millennia has rejected both speculations.

I'm a bit puzzled by this last statement.  According to the Encyclopaedia
Judaica, "Orthodox Judaism has, throughout, maintained both a belief in the
future resurrection of the dead..., and also a belief in some form of
immortality of the soul after death." (2:339)  And the Mishnah, one of the
foundations of traditional Judaism, says that "All Israelites will have a
share in the world-to-come" but "anyone who says that resurrection is not of
Torah origin" will not have a share (Sanhedrin 10:1, tr. Eugene J. Lipman).

--Adam

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### Alice K. Turner
*23 Apr 2002, 07:15 · follows Adam Stephanides*

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Adam Stephanides" <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
> on 4/20/02 7:13 AM, Alice K. Turner at aturner6 at nyc.rr.com wrote:

>> These had much
>> to do with life after death, and (I gather) there was at the time some
>> question as to whether this would be sequential (a la Hindu) or
>> permanent.
>> The conservative Saducee party together with every orthodox (small o)

Jewish

>> party for the last two millennia has rejected both speculations.

> I'm a bit puzzled by this last statement.  According to the Encyclopaedia
> Judaica, "Orthodox Judaism has, throughout, maintained both a belief in
> the
> future resurrection of the dead..., and also a belief in some form of
> immortality of the soul after death." (2:339)  And the Mishnah, one of the
> foundations of traditional Judaism, says that "All Israelites will have a
> share in the world-to-come" but "anyone who says that resurrection is not
> of
> Torah origin" will not have a share (Sanhedrin 10:1, tr. Eugene J.

Lipman).

Thanks, Adam--that'll teach me to rely on the veracity of a Jewish friend
who isn't religious. I should looked it up myself. But it *is* true that
Jews don't bang on about it the way Christians do.

-alga

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