Monday 16 October 2017

Sanhedrin 92: The World-to-Come and Reviving the Dead

The basics of today's daf:

  • There are rewards for teaching Torah, for example:
    • inheritance
    • merit to teach it in the World-to-Come
  • There are punishments for avoiding learning Torah, for example:
    • one is cursed by a fetus
    • one is punctured like a sieve
  • Eleazar's interpretations about the importance of Torah and G-d, for example
    • anyone with knowledge (of Torah and of the ways of the world) will grow wealthy
    • crumbs left on the table are like idolatry
    • a home should have sounds of Torah at night
    • one who is humble lives a long life
  • Wombs and graves are similar:
    • both have a place of entry (semen/grave) and exit (babies/grave - with the revival of the dead)
    • entry is covert but exit will be a tumult
  • How G-d will revive the dead and remake the world
    • flying people
    • Yechezkel is said to have died, revived, stood up, sang songs, and died again, though this may have been a parable
    • some rabbis say that we will not be revived
    • a story of Nebuchadnezzar who stole Yisraelim who were so glorious that the women bled just looking at them, even after Nebuchadnezzar had the young men killed
    • another story of Nebuchadnezzar who sent Sages to the furnace for refusing to bow, and they were said to be revived
    • Molten gold was poured down his throat 
    • The furnace floated
    • The plaster melted
    • The image to be bowed to fell on its face
    • the four kings who helped him were burned
    • Yechezkel revived the dead 
  • A Sage should not change his clothing even at a time of danger, to appear calm, and to remember that the Sages lost to Nebuchadnezzar's furnace walked in and out in their clothing

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