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Orthodox Jewish afterlife (was Re: Scylla & Oreb)

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Adam Stephanides22 Apr 2002, 03:02originalas archived
Orthodox Jewish afterlife (was Re: Scylla & Oreb)
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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
Alice K. Turner23 Apr 2002, 07:15originalas archived
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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)
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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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