tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633952367455665536.post8068819749295988529..comments2024-03-29T14:07:48.483+03:00Comments on DUS IZ NIES !! Rare View...: Vayikra: Rambam and KorbanotDusiznieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17159854165651441155noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633952367455665536.post-15885795909634028122018-03-17T00:12:14.552+02:002018-03-17T00:12:14.552+02:00Abe
You are correct that "after life" i...Abe<br />You are correct that "after life" is not directly written in the written Torah but it is discussed at length in Mesactas Sanhedrin and in other places in the Talmud. <br />It is of course mentioned in an indirect way and that is also discussed in the same Mesacteh. The Gemarrah also discusses why the Torah didn't write it directly.<br />The same Rambam that discusses the reason for Karbonos that Harav Kook z"l so beautifully explained, writes that there is an "after life" and that is one of the basic tenets of Judaism. The fact that the Egyptians also believed in the "after life" doesn't negate the fact that "after life" is a basic fundamental belief in Judaism. <br />There are many mitzvois not written directly in the Torah and all mitzvois in the Torah need further info, and that's why Jews believe that the "Oral Torah" was transmitted to the Jews at Sinai at the same time as the written laws .<br />For example... take the Mitzvah of Tefillen, written explicitly in the written Torah .. from the written Torah itself, I do not know the shape of the tefillen, I don't know the color or how many compartments, and what verses to put into those compartments,I need the oral Torah to give me that information ...<br />Even circumcision which is written explicitly in the Torah, doesn't say which part of the body should be circumcised.... in fact it actually say "umol Le'Vavacha" which means to "circumcise your heart" and we know thats impossible... the oral Torah is like the instructions and both go hand in hand ..<br />as far as praying to the dead is concerned ... that is actually a discussion also in Mesectas Sanhedrin and some actually have no problem with praying to the dead.... but most Rabbis are of the opinion that one should pray to G-D in the merit of that particular deceased person and that praying to the dead is blaspheme ...<br />The Kabbalists believe that every year at the yurzeit the soul goes to a higher place, so it is customary by chassidim and Sfardim to celebrate that elevation ..... and thats why they say that the "neshama should be olaeh yafeh"<br />Now you can argue all day until the cows come home that you think it is ridiculous ... but the fact is that millions of Jews believe in that and I find no harm in that belief and it gives the family of the deceased comfort to go to thei graves of their family or their rabbis and pray ...<br />What I am against is going to Poland Dusiznieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17159854165651441155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633952367455665536.post-58625818276469244752018-03-16T22:53:27.457+02:002018-03-16T22:53:27.457+02:00Klal Yisroel was also deterred from belief in an a...Klal Yisroel was also deterred from belief in an afterlife after the redemption from Egypt. <br />Egypt’s belief in life after death and the dead’s journey through the precarious netherworld was a major part of their religious doctrine. Mummification and those fantastic pyramids were what was all consuming in ancient Egypt They provided the means by which they journeyed to the safe afterlife. <br />Klal Yisroel’s belief in an afterlife is notable for its prominent explicit absence in the Torah.You might think that those decades of enslavement would erase their religious heritage and substitute an Egyptian obsession with death, the dead and afterlife. But it is absent in the Torah precisely because the Torah wanted to banish those pagan religious fundamentals from Hashem’s revelation. Nowhere in the Torah is it stated that there is a “heaven” or you will go to heaven or shamayim after death because the Torah wanted to distance Klal Yisroel from Egyptian theology. <br />Those that daven at graves should consider this.Abenoreply@blogger.com