Birth, Death, Paradise, Hell, & Resurrection

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

What does afterlife look like? What is afterlife? That's called in Judaism Ganeden. It's surprising. You know, I was I had a zoom a few weeks ago with probably the greatest expert, one of the greatest experts in the world today on trauma, Dr. Bessel Vanderulk. Vanderkulk, he wrote the book The Body Keeps the Score. It's on it's online. We had a interesting session about trauma in the Jewish community and healing. And he didn't know that Judaism believes in afterlife. afterlife. He he thought he thought it was a Christian idea. It was it was fascinating to me because he's not Jewish. But uh it's just interesting and many Jews don't know that Judaism believes in an afterlife. So that's the first thing we want to discuss. It's called Ganed uh paradise afterlife. It's sometimes called omaba, the world to come, but that's not the world to come that we're talking about. Then there is another component called olaba. Every Jew has a part that's also known as the resurrection. The world resurrection. The world resurrection which is again one of the 13 principles of faith that there's going to be there's the concept of the resurrection of the dead where the souls don't only live in the afterlife spiritually but that the souls are going to come back that the bodies are going to be re recreated or redeveloped uh from decomposition. They're going to come back and once again become a home, a house for the soul in this world. That's the concept of and the Mishna

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1. 0:00What does afterlife look like? What is afterlife? That's called in Judaism Ganeden. It's surprising. You…
2. 5:43and that embryo is created. That's the moment that the soul begins to land. It's like,…
3. 11:30experiences reality. The soul sees and hears and understands not through a physical brain and not…
4. 17:13with our mouth. And when we start talking about things, we lose a little bit of…
5. 22:53knew history. He was a deep soul. And suddenly it was all gone. Like what happened?…
6. 28:36pure holiness emerges. Its pure godliness emerges. And sometimes there's a deep shame like I don't…
7. 34:49We spend time gathering possessions. My car and my house and my jewelry and my private…
8. 40:27ultimate journey is as the soul comes back down here to earth. That's the world to…
9. 46:03about the holiness of the body, the the depth in the body, the fact that the…
10. 51:39genius was manifested through the piano. Every Jew is a little Mozart. Every Jew has a…

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