[thereisone] How Will It End?

From: Gutman Locks <locks.gutman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: thereisone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 06:28:10 +0300

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How Will it End?

     Thank you Aaron for pointing out that my statement that someday the
world will revert to nothing is not universally accepted.

     As most often the case, there is more than one accepted opinion. On
this most mystical matter the majority of the most respected *seforim*
(Jewish books), hold like the Ramba*n*, that after the resurrection of the
dead and the World to Come happens, life will be more or less the same as
it is now in this physical world but it will be more spiritual, at least on
the level of Gan Eden (the Garden of Eden).

     There is also a legitimate opinion that after all the judgement and
resurrection of the dead, the World to Come will a world of souls.

     “For in the Ramba*m*’s view the principal setting for man’s ultimate
reward and punishment is not the world of resurrected life but the World of
Souls, and it is about this world of disembodied souls that Rab spoke when
he said that ‘the righteous sit with their crowns on their heads and
delight in the radiance of the Divine Presence.’ It is to this world of
pure spirit that the soul enters upon death and to which it will return
after its resurrected body dies. For Ramba*m* maintains that the state of
resurrection is not permanent. Rather, those deserving of resurrection will
be resurrected and live the unusually long, happy lives of the idyllic
Messianic period that culminated life on this earth – eating, drinking, and
procreating, just like the people born initially in that epoch.  Eventually,
however body and soul will again separate with the souls of the deserving
returning to the eternal World of Souls to delight in the Divine Presence
forever.

     “Fundamentally, however, all agree that man’s eternal state is a
sublime spiritual one - whether the spiritual life of pure soul (Ramba*m*),
or that of the soul reunited with an ethereal purified body (Ramba*n*).” [i]
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     Either way is fine with me. Please G-d, we will merit to see for
ourselves.

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[i] <#m_5468447401422480846__ednref1> Artscroll Sanhedrin Appendix (The
World to Come)

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