RE: Resurrection (was Shnirele Perele)

[Mel Korn <mkorn...>]

While this is clearly a veering away from the topic of Jewish Music, I do
have a book to recommend. An old friend, Simcha Paull Raphael, wrote "Jewish
Views of the Afterlife" nearly ten years ago, and explores many ideas
including the concept of t'chiyat hameitim (resurrection of the dead). This
link will lead you to a brief description of the book, and a way to order
it.
http://www.rbookshop.com/religion/a/Afterlife/Jewish_Views_of_the_Afterlife_
1568219385.htm

Mel.
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Subject: Re: Resurrection (was Shnirele Perele)

Quoting Michel Borzykowski <borzykowski (at) infomaniak(dot)ch>:

> Thanks, Bob, for these interesting variations...
> Would you please be so kind to translate:
> uvo letsion goyeyl venoymar
>
> Any comments about the idea of resurrection of the deads in the Jewish
> culture /religion?
>
>

Thanks to Irwin Oppenheim for responding to Michal's first request.  As for
the second, I must leave the answer to list members more qualified than I.
A
tongue-in-cheek answer, however, can be found in the opening paragraphs of
Isaac Bashevis Singer's speech to the Nobel Prize banquet in 1978, in which
he
addressed the question of why he continued to write in Yiddish, a "dying
language" (see http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1978/singer-
speech.html):

"[I also believe] in resurrection. I am sure that millions of Yiddish
speaking
corpses will rise from their graves one day and their first question will
be: 'Is there any new Yiddish book to read?' For them Yiddish will not be
dead."

Bob





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