Rabbi Chaim Mintz - The Significance of Jacob's Burial Wish

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] it's very popular by the Egyptians Yaakov they saw his greatness and they saw his superpowers to give power with such a blessing now an overflow that the famine should stop and people in those times once a person showed superpowers right away the maintenance of a God and said worshipping Him so yeah cause I don't want that time now the God I don't be worshipped I know they're gonna do it to me so I don't want to be very here because when I die they're gonna make a trying and it's gonna come to me the bow down and make me as if I'm a god I'm not God so please I don't want to be buried here I don't want to be in competition with God I'm not a guy that's number two and number three very interesting and that's number nine because tire gilgul McGillis we as Jewish people believe that the dead will come alive resurrection of the Dead when the time comes when God will reveal himself to the world and we will be entered into the world to come the worlds of eternity and that's when the dead people will come alive those who were married to come alive not everybody know they're good people in this world God will give them that person to become alive and live forever people that wicked will not become alive so how is that going to happen it's going to happen in the Land of Israel the Holy Land Eretz Israel that's where the dead people will become alive but they're not buried there I was all Jewish people most preachers put over the generations probably buried all over

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