08-12-2008, 10:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-12-2008, 01:04 PM by Director Michael.)
Sh'lom,
I presented this question to Rabbi Moshe Weiner, author of the book "Sefer Sheva Mitzvot HaShem," published by Ask Noah International. Here is his reply:
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How did these souls merit to be receiving a reward in the spiritual heavens?
It is obvious they are there because of some good deed(s) they have done and Noahide commandments they have observed.
Since any commanded observance and altruistic (unselfish) good deed is truly connected to G-d, and His Existence is forever, therefore the spiritual impression of a commanded observance and an unselfish good deed continues eternally.
The good that was done includes the soul of the person who did this good, and being bound together, they are eternal together, because of the G-dliness within the good that was done.
So when the G-dliness within that good will be openly revealed in the reality of this physical world - and that is the correct understanding of what will happen in the World to Come which is the Era of the Resurrection - then the person himself or herself will also come back into the physical world, to be part of that revealed G-dliness.
Although as I understand it, for persons who were not genuinely Pious Gentiles (i.e., a chasid in the observance of the Noahide Code within the Torah of Moses), but whose souls still merit to be in the spiritual heavens at the time of the resurrection, they will not have the spiritual ability to stand on their own merits in the intense Presence of G-dliness that will be revealed in the physical world at that time. Therefore, their souls will be attached with those of resurrected people, to have a share in that revelation, but not as directly as if they were there in their own physical bodies.
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I presented this question to Rabbi Moshe Weiner, author of the book "Sefer Sheva Mitzvot HaShem," published by Ask Noah International. Here is his reply:
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How did these souls merit to be receiving a reward in the spiritual heavens?
It is obvious they are there because of some good deed(s) they have done and Noahide commandments they have observed.
Since any commanded observance and altruistic (unselfish) good deed is truly connected to G-d, and His Existence is forever, therefore the spiritual impression of a commanded observance and an unselfish good deed continues eternally.
The good that was done includes the soul of the person who did this good, and being bound together, they are eternal together, because of the G-dliness within the good that was done.
So when the G-dliness within that good will be openly revealed in the reality of this physical world - and that is the correct understanding of what will happen in the World to Come which is the Era of the Resurrection - then the person himself or herself will also come back into the physical world, to be part of that revealed G-dliness.
Although as I understand it, for persons who were not genuinely Pious Gentiles (i.e., a chasid in the observance of the Noahide Code within the Torah of Moses), but whose souls still merit to be in the spiritual heavens at the time of the resurrection, they will not have the spiritual ability to stand on their own merits in the intense Presence of G-dliness that will be revealed in the physical world at that time. Therefore, their souls will be attached with those of resurrected people, to have a share in that revelation, but not as directly as if they were there in their own physical bodies.
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