Is there Life After Life? If so, how should we live our lives? – Rabbi Yisroel C. Blumenthal examines the question "Is there Life after Death?"
Is there life after death? And if our lives continue beyond this world, how should that change the way we live today?
Judaism teaches the immortality of the soul and the future resurrection of the dead. But the Jewish understanding of life after death is about more than what awaits us in the world to come. It also challenges us to consider the purpose of our lives here and now.
What if our greatest achievement is not what we accumulate, but the good we do for others and the positive difference we make in the world? In this thought-provoking presentation, discover how Jewish teachings about the afterlife can inspire us to live with greater purpose, responsibility, and compassion.
In this presentation, you'll explore: • What Judaism teaches about the immortality of the soul and the world to come. • The Jewish perspective on reward and punishment after death. • How belief in an afterlife influences the choices we make today. • Why helping others and improving the world are central to a meaningful life. • How to look back on life knowing we did our best to make a positive difference.
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Rabbi Yisroel C. Blumenthal is an Educator and the Director of Judaism Resources (hosted at https://judaismresources.net/ and associated with the project 1000 Verses) which is an educational non-profit website designed to explain traditional Jewish beliefs and respond to Christian missionary arguments from a traditional Jewish perspective.
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This video explores the Jewish perspective on life after death, clarifying that the afterlife is not a reward system based on \"points\" or \"prizes,\" but rather a reflection of the eternal qualities a person cultivates. By practicing justice, kindness, and morality, an individual builds their own eternity, as these divine attributes are the only things that truly endure.
Judaism has a teaching about life after life,
or if you will, life after death, that after
a person's life, he's rewarded in the next world
for his good deeds, and he's punished
for his bad deeds.
At first glance, it seems sort of like a children's carnival,
where you go and you play in this
contest or that game, and if you do well, you get a few tickets.
If you don't do well, you get less tickets or no tickets.
and at the end of the carnival, you come to the prize booth
and depending on how many tickets,
that's how big of a stuffed animal you're going to get.
That's what it sounds like.
It sounds like you earn points
and then at the base of the points, you get a prize.
And nothing could be further than the truth.
It has nothing to do with the true picture
of the Jewish teaching on life after death.
The way it works is as follows.
We understand that God shared
of himself with humanity
through good deeds what i mean good deeds is justice kindness
and morality god gave man the
opportunity to imbibe to do deeds of justice deeds
of morality to deeds of kindness you can grow and
cultivate these things
when a person is building himself through deeds of justice kindness and
morality he is building he's creating his own eternity
because since these are qualities of
god they are eternal and they last with a person
and if a person does the opposite of justice
kindness and morality and all
the negative commandments what god tells us not to do are
the opposite of justice kindness
and morality he's going further away from eternity he's in he's
creating his own hell so to speak
so it's not something that you earn in the sense of the prize
at the end of the day rather it's something
that you're building it you you create with your good
deeds you create positive for yourself
and with your negative deeds you create negative for
yourself now this is not something that's
so abstract and so removed from our daily lives
if you think about it it's something
that we experience here on earth ask yourself what is it
that you have today from what you did pick a day out
of the hat 10 years ago or 20 years ago the
pleasures that you took in for yourself
then maybe you have a good memory from it but if you did an
act of kindness 10 or 20 years ago.
What do you feel about it today? You are a better person
today. It's something that you have.
You grew from that. If you sacrifice for someone else,
or if you sacrifice for justice, if you sacrifice for morality,
you have that today. There's a verse
in the book of Numbers, chapter 5, verse 10.
It's actually speaking about giving the tithes to the
priest but the language the verse uses
is that the bible uses is every man that which is sanctified
or that which he sacrifices it belongs
to him what you're going to do today isn't going to last
tomorrow if what you're doing is for yourself well
if you sacrifice that's what you have that's what
you're going to have down the road i'll just finish with a story
when the communist government took
over in russia the biggest crime
that a person could have committed was to be wealthy anyone
was wealthy was considered a criminal
in communist russia you were a capitalist and they would throw
you in jail and the following conversation
was overheard in between two brothers that were very
wealthy two brothers very wealthy
and now they found themselves penniless in a communist jail
and one spoke to the other
and he said, think about it, all the hard work this is a family that had
been wealthy for generations, all the hard work
that we put in that our father put in that our
grandfather put in, in the generations before
us, what we were amassing all this wealth
for. It was all for the communist
government to take it. It wasn't
for ourselves. And the other one responded
and he said, no, but
we did good things with the money.
We didn't just put it in the bank. We didn't
just spend it on luxury vacations.
We gave it to those poor people.
We gave it to those orphans. We gave it to those widows.
Look at all that good that we did with the money.
And the other brother said, you're right.
We did so little. We could have done so much
more. What this story teaches you is
It is using the example of money, but it applies across
the board to all of your energy and to all of your activities.
The only thing that you take with you, that stays with you,
that's eternal, that lasts, is the sacrifice,
is what you do for others, what you do for the benefit of humanity,
what you do to be a blessing to the people around you.
As long as you see the world around you as if it's here
to be a blessing for you, you're not taking that with you.
That's not eternity.
Eternity is to be a blessing to the people around you,
to the world around you.
