Why the Afterlife Isn’t Mentioned in the Torah

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  • @msrhuby
    @msrhuby Před 6 lety +31

    Good point! Don't focus on the afterlife, focus on the here and now.

    • @KM-leons
      @KM-leons Před 4 lety +7

      That holds good only if you are sure you have a very long life ahead for you. If you die today and you realize that you haven't prepared for it it would be the greatest tragedy that you can imagine. Only Jesus offers you real hope for an afterlife. Go to Him and secure your eternal life and live a peaceful and purposeful life here below.

    • @msrhuby
      @msrhuby Před 4 lety +4

      @@KM-leons Amen to that! I've learned a lot in the two years since I posted that Thank you for bringing it to mind.

    • @yaruqadishi8326
      @yaruqadishi8326 Před rokem +2

      Well we pagans have Hell and Heaven and Afterlife Judgement and Good Deeds get one in Heaven. And good deeds on earth brings heaven on earth and sins bad stuff makes hell on earth not just Divine Wrath but natural and normal basic personal consequences.
      Heaven and Hell have to be the after result of Acts and behavior on earth and your start and the punishment reward is How God(s) Does with people lived and placed for their benefit. The Gods or God Single gain nothin from us it's us Gain all from Them.

    • @janishart5128
      @janishart5128 Před 8 měsíci

      @@KM-leons: Actually, you're extremely confused, because you've been LIED to by "Christianity". NOWHERE in the ETERNAL Hebrew scriptures did God ever mention the "Jesus" character to us, NOWHERE did He tell us we need to be "saved", and NOWHERE did He tell us that He requires HUMAN BLOOD (a purely pagan ritual that God ABHORS!) as atonement for our sins!
      I was born into a nominal Anglican family, then as I got older, learned more about the Bible, and left Anglicanism, and as I continued to learn, moved on to two other denominations of Christianity. Twenty+ YEARS ago, I converted from being a born-again, baptized, Evangelical Baptist Christian, and then a 'Messianic' Christian (for a total of 40+ YEARS), so there's nothing anyone can gaslight me with at this point. I know all about the teachings of both of those false, pagan, man-made religions, which is why I, and thousands of others have left various denominations of "Christianity", when we learned what they actually believe and preach. Ever since leaving Christianity, I have been learning from the Orthodox Rabbis, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11 (in the absence of the Temple, the Rabbis are our spiritual teachers, since they - and ONLY THEY have been studying the original Hebrew scriptures all the way back to Mt. Sinai) and have learned some MAJOR untruths taught by the religion I grew up with.
      You need to realize, research, and accept, that NO FURTHER SCRIPTURES (i.e. NO "NT") were given to mankind by God AFTER Mt. Sinai, and that the ENTIRETY of the Hebrew scriptures, i.e. TANACH, that consists of the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings (i.e. Psalms, Proverbs, etc.) were given to Moses at Mt. Sinai. Also given to Moses at that time, was the Talmud, which is the explanations and details of the Tanach, without which it is impossible to understand the words given to Moses. Christianity foolishly REJECTS the Talmud, which resulted in their bastardization of God's ETERNAL (i.e. STILL in effect and binding TODAY - a LIVING document!) words, leaving them in profound darkness as to what God ACTUALLY said to us at Mt. Sinai, which resulted in the false, pagan, man-made, blasphemous religion of "Christianity", that preaches AGAINST what God said to us there.
      PLEASE buy a Hebrew Bible (says "Stone Edition TANACH" on the cover) and Rabbi Tovia Singer's books "Let's Get Biblical - Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?", as well as Rabbi Stuart Federow's book "Judaism and Christianity: A Contrast", to help you understand why Christianity absolutely did NOT come from God.

    • @user-eg7su4bs1s
      @user-eg7su4bs1s Před měsícem +1

      This is good! Provided you know who you are!

  • @JoubertGiannechini
    @JoubertGiannechini Před 2 lety +11

    Thank you for the video. The predictions are used often to somehow control followers or even gather new ones. But the Torah wants us to do good because is true. Meaning something you can do in the light and not fear.

  • @narrelleweir6383
    @narrelleweir6383 Před 6 lety +11

    Thank you. Always interesting, yet explained in such an easy way for a non Jewish person to understand. 😊

  • @rmaha1965
    @rmaha1965 Před 6 lety +12

    Very interesting. You address a question that I've had for a long time and helped bring it into focus. Thank you.

  • @aunablessing8701
    @aunablessing8701 Před 6 lety +9

    I needed this today, thank you!

  • @onejourney
    @onejourney Před 6 lety +5

    🎬 1 🤔 🧐 🎥 📽 🎞 🗣 🎙 🧐 Outstanding, thank you so much for sharing.

  • @zinaliadesousa1115
    @zinaliadesousa1115 Před 6 lety +1

    Thank u for sharing your insights.

  • @danielbwroblewski
    @danielbwroblewski Před 6 lety +5

    Thanks for the interesting video. P.S.: Please record at a higher volume.

  • @ninapanares8642
    @ninapanares8642 Před 4 lety +6

    Good insights compare to what I was taught growing up in a diff religion.

  • @MuhamedRahman
    @MuhamedRahman Před měsícem

    The Best, By Definition ❤

  • @alphainfinitum3445
    @alphainfinitum3445 Před 3 lety +3

    The ideas he has explained here are very powerful in their own right, they are very interesting points to reflect on in a different study, but they don't present a good argument as why the Torah is silent on the Afterlife.

    • @janishart5128
      @janishart5128 Před 8 měsíci

      Actually LISTEN to what the Rabbi is saying!

  • @eldacar351
    @eldacar351 Před 9 měsíci +1

    What are the 72 caterers (spelling?) that the Rabbi mentions at 4:13?

  • @mredwardgibbon
    @mredwardgibbon Před 6 lety +4

    I appreciate your cleverness, Rabbi.
    It's true that the Torah doesn't go into extensive detail about what is waiting for us in paradise. On the other hand, the Tanakht describes various places in paradise and general ideas of what paradise is like:
    1. The Tanakht describes the throne room of God
    2. The Tanakht describes the angels in paradise
    3. The Tanakht explains how a few of the angels serve God
    4. The Torah tells us that God gave Moses the blueprint for the tabernacle
    5. The Tanakht also informs us that God gave David the blueprint for Solomon's Temple.
    In a multitude of counselors, there is safety, but the Lord's secrets are with those that respect THE LORD and study His words.

  • @RaphaelIgrisianu
    @RaphaelIgrisianu Před rokem

    Near death experience people claim there are many different worlds and that we will plan our next life after this one in a orientation area from where we choose were we wanna go next....what does Judaism say about this

  • @todberry5068
    @todberry5068 Před 6 lety +1

    How does HaShem feel about Jews seeking converts to Judaism?

  • @sosteneslagocavalcante6088

    Ecclesiastes 12:7. says the Spirit goes back to God. In the Torah Hashem told to Moses (Moche). You go to meet your ppl??.. means that have some place when ppl pass away...

  • @MinaDKSBMSB
    @MinaDKSBMSB Před rokem

    Isnt the land flowing with milk and honey is itself a symbol of the afterlife?

  • @NerdyPreacher
    @NerdyPreacher Před 6 měsíci +1

    Who defines good and evil? What is the Point of doing good ,if there is no objective definition of good. Who among us is always good, likewise who has not participated in some form of evil? If there is a standard of good, who set the moral Law? if we do fall short who has pardoned the evil in which we all have done? if goodness is the standard of truth, and truth cannot be compromised otherwise it is not the truth. Then the Truth Must be perfection. Who among us is Perfect other than God. Who sent His Son, God Revealed in Flesh, The Way The Truth and the Life that none Should come to the Father but by Jesus...

  • @lindag5116
    @lindag5116 Před rokem +1

    Thank you. I'm Jewish and don't believe in Hell. I'm shocked by how many Jews on Facebook believe in hell except that they're spending toomuch time on facebook.

    • @simongross3122
      @simongross3122 Před 2 měsíci

      There is no hell, unless we're already there. There is no heaven either, unless we are already there. We should not do good in hope of cosmic brownie points; we should do good because it's good for us and for the world and our descendants.

  • @chaoscoordinator5263
    @chaoscoordinator5263 Před 4 lety +6

    Thank you for this explanation. Makes me think that maybe sometimes honest atheist people are worthier than very religious ones.

    • @michaelgrossmann6902
      @michaelgrossmann6902 Před 4 lety +2

      True

    • @janishart5128
      @janishart5128 Před 8 měsíci

      No matter how "honest" an Atheist is, he doesn't escape with no consequences for his disbelief in God. Our Creator gave us a set of instructions for how to live in the world He created for us, and He expects each one of us, no matter WHAT our beliefs, or lack thereof, to SEEK HIM OUT and learn His Truth, as given to Moses at Mt. Sinai.

  • @renooparmar4236
    @renooparmar4236 Před 6 lety +10

    These are some of the reasons i am jew by choice.
    How great is it ..that one is good with no strings attached

  • @breathinghuman8779
    @breathinghuman8779 Před 4 lety +21

    Wish I had been raised Jewish, so the image of hell wouldn’t have been SO DEEPLY DRILLED into my psyche from a young age.

    • @msrhuby
      @msrhuby Před 4 lety +3

      Pretending hell isn't real doesn't make it so! The consequences of rejecting salvation are real

    • @pamelabergnerbergner5093
      @pamelabergnerbergner5093 Před 3 lety +2

      Breathing human: we can convert💙

    • @pamelabergnerbergner5093
      @pamelabergnerbergner5093 Před 3 lety +2

      @@msrhuby ♥️ it's ok to have different beliefs, and to recognise a separate truth.

    • @msrhuby
      @msrhuby Před 3 lety +1

      @@pamelabergnerbergner5093 There is only ONE truth, all others are opinions - John 14:6

    • @pamelabergnerbergner5093
      @pamelabergnerbergner5093 Před 3 lety +10

      @@msrhuby my Bible is the Hebrew Bible 💙💫✡️🇮🇱♥️

  • @dawahchl4182
    @dawahchl4182 Před 3 lety +4

    if you want to know if hell is real or not then I'm inviting you to read the Quran. the life of this world is temporary but hereafter life is internal. so prepare for the life of hereafter.

  • @anglokelts6919
    @anglokelts6919 Před rokem +1

    The afterlife of unbelievers is mentioned in Numbers 16:30.

  • @user-eg7su4bs1s
    @user-eg7su4bs1s Před měsícem

    If you cannot fit the notion of the"next life" into a coherent system of thought, as your speech shows, going back and forth, as rabbis often do, it is better to remain silence!

  • @pamelabergnerbergner5093
    @pamelabergnerbergner5093 Před 3 lety +12

    ♥️✡️🇮🇱🇺🇸I love Judiasm ♥️✡️🇮🇱🇺🇸

  • @jaystreet4004
    @jaystreet4004 Před rokem

    Can you please answer my question. How do Jews aton for sins if there is no blood shed for the remission of sins?

  • @ChatzkalehKofer
    @ChatzkalehKofer Před 2 lety +3

    These answers are clever but ad-hoc. I prefer the explanations from the current biblical scholars: There was no concept of the afterlife that we know today in antiquity. Same for the concept of mosiach. During the Babylonian exile, we took over some concepts from the Zoroastrians and others. The Torah mentions some alternatives:
    - Going down to Sheol (which is the underworld)
    - Be buried with your forefathers (being moved to the plot of your forefathers)
    - Cut off from your people meant being thrown outside of the community / camp, not some mystical concept
    For more on this topic, see www.thetorah.com/article/no-heaven-or-hell-only-sheol

  • @destroyermelody
    @destroyermelody Před 2 lety +3

    I believe Judaism supposed to be the "rational" version of the accient Egyptian believes!!! :D

  • @littleandre4957
    @littleandre4957 Před 2 lety

    That's why the Torah does not mention Hasatan which Yashar 23 does either...

  • @TanjaVK1968
    @TanjaVK1968 Před rokem +1

    It is mentioned everywhere - EXCEPT in the most important writing. ?!?! About "calculations" and God's desire for you to do stg out of pure heart and not calculating what is in it for you: "Honor your father and your mother....that it may GO WELL WITH YOU in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.". SO God cares about warning you in this material life - and chooses NOT to warn you about your eternal destiny? ?!?

  • @ancientmonotheism5118
    @ancientmonotheism5118 Před 7 měsíci

    Not only in Chumash but also in Prophets and Writings hardly found implicit mentioning about the Afterlife. Judaism (rabbinic) is pretty much worldly worldview, an obvious offshoot of Abrahamic creed

  • @davidbradberry7637
    @davidbradberry7637 Před 2 lety +1

    Recommend Neil Gilman's book THE DEATH OF DEATH. The idea of an "immortal soul" is foreign to the Jewish Scriptures and owes it's emergence to Platoism.

    • @sciencenotstigma9534
      @sciencenotstigma9534 Před rokem +1

      It’s in the Tanakh, no?

    • @janishart5128
      @janishart5128 Před 8 měsíci

      Absolutely WRONG! Jews are well aware that God created us with IMMORTAL souls!! I don't know where you're getting your false information from, but it's WRONG!

    • @simongross3122
      @simongross3122 Před 2 měsíci

      @@janishart5128 Immortal souls? That's just fantasy.

  • @kishordas2300
    @kishordas2300 Před 2 lety +3

    I think Jews believes Reincarnation concept.many Kabbalah Traditional Jews believes Reincarnation.

    • @simongross3122
      @simongross3122 Před 2 měsíci

      No Jew that I've met believes in reincarnation.

  • @fusemalaysia840
    @fusemalaysia840 Před 2 lety

    😂😂😂

  • @adamsulaiman639
    @adamsulaiman639 Před měsícem

    elementary my dear Watson...

  • @meghdirlynda5366
    @meghdirlynda5366 Před rokem +4

    Quran has detailed descriptions of paradise

  • @bombombimbim440
    @bombombimbim440 Před rokem +1

    If there's no afterlife, why god created us?! After we live, we died, and nothing to do.... We don't met god, we don't receive reward, our purpose vanish after we died!!! No meaning we created by god so then......

  • @evaguzman1734
    @evaguzman1734 Před 2 lety

    Great!!! Know I feel like going up in the ladder 🤣 taking step by step to my creator and ha Shem go down, go downstairs woman! 👵🤔😏🙏👣this would is to evil!!!

  • @bcdznxy-jr3hx
    @bcdznxy-jr3hx Před rokem

    Who says afterlife is not mentioned .. valley of dry bones ..
    -- why these souls became dry bones ?
    -- why were they revived ..
    -- where were their souls when their physical bones dried out ..
    Ezekiel then tells me these bones came to life = reincarnate .. valley of dry bones , hinnom.
    I worship Jehovah God .. no pagan trinity.
    “And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty,
    ■ but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.”
    - Exodus 6:3 (KJV)
    Afterlife :
    Enoch , elijah , moses , all the prophets .. w God.
    Pagans : in hell .. diff. levels

  • @veronicalogotheti5416
    @veronicalogotheti5416 Před 2 lety

    Because they knew
    They are not coming back

  • @coolvoices6608
    @coolvoices6608 Před 3 lety +2

    Want to know about after life? Ask Koran. Humans can't stop thinking about after life because death is a mystery. If you think of after life you will live with humility n justice on earth preparing for the after life. No Abrahamic religion has a vivid idea of it more than the Koran which came to complete the divine message. Jews stopped learning from Jesus, stopped learning from Mohammad... Result= little knowledge which is a recipe for disaster.

    • @tayh.6235
      @tayh.6235 Před 2 lety +1

      Vivid is one word for it. Jannah sounds like hell to me.

  • @midnyte6195
    @midnyte6195 Před rokem

    I'm going to regret my inaction after eating popcorn and Pepsi and that's before going to bed! should I like poop it out or the other thing?😝

  • @dicksonmommoh
    @dicksonmommoh Před 2 lety +1

    Because there is no life after death. Once a person dies that is it. King Saul said to David '' promise me that you will not exterminate my seed'' if he became the king of Israel. Back in the days people of the old testament did not believe in going to heaven. Life is a continuim through the seeds and the eggs

    • @janishart5128
      @janishart5128 Před 8 měsíci +1

      That's YOUR 'opinion' - NOT God's Truth!!

  • @hildapage7065
    @hildapage7065 Před 6 lety

    Wow, Sir, I like to listen to you, but so many of your hypotheses could be answered definitively by reading the apostle Paul's New Testament letters. The N.T. is written by Jews, about Jews, for Jews, written and directed by GOD, as ANYONE who has the Spirit of Truth residing in them will KNOW.
    (Check-out Stan Telchin's testimonial, an incredible account of what happened when he did just that.) Shalom.

  • @maltesetony9030
    @maltesetony9030 Před měsícem

    Convoluted rubbish if ever I heard it.

  • @maseratiupgrades4363
    @maseratiupgrades4363 Před rokem +1

    Because the Torah is an incomplete book of God. Body resurrection, judgement, eternal heaven and hell come in God's later books that you seem to reject using poor logic at that. You share false 'God Complex' that is a modern Jewish invention whereby one is to partner with God in completing His creation. Like God, we are to be good only for goodness's sake by fostering 'spirituality vs 'physicality', otherwise we will not be able to nurture our selfless non physical divinity, a necessary quality of being a God, leading to an ambiguous notion that one day, in the next life, we will be 'God'. Waiting for God's reward is no longer in your vocabulary. You arrogantly view God's promise of spiritual and physical rewards as a way of training you (Oh Great Ones) like 'dogs' or 'monkeys'. This blasphemy of aspiring to be a self actualized god besides God violates the first commandment given to Moses by partnering yourselves with God rather than seeing yourselves as creatures with physical and spiritual needs as opposed to the True One transcendentally and majestic God is truly free of all needs, worthy of all praise (Quran). This blasphemous desire leads you to both cognitive spiritual blindness shielding yourself from God's guidance:
    Quran Chapter 17, The Nigh Journey-
    45. When you read the Quran, We place between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter an invisible barrier.
    46. And We drape veils over their hearts, preventing them from understanding it, and heaviness in their ears. And when you mention your Lord alone in the Quran, they turn their backs in aversion.
    47. We know well what they listen to, when they listen to you, as they conspire, when the wrongdoers say, “You only follow a man bewitched.”
    48. Note what they compared you to. They are lost, and unable to find a way.
    49. And they say, “When we have become bones and fragments, shall we really be resurrected as a new creation?”
    50. Say, “Even if you become rocks or iron.
    51. Or some substance, which, in your minds, is even harder.” Then they will say, “Who will restore us?” Say, “The One who originated you the first time.” Then they will nod their heads at you, and say, “When will it be?” Say, “Perhaps it will be soon.”
    52. On the Day when He calls you, you will respond with His praise, and you will realize that you stayed only a little.
    ...........111. And say, “Praise be to God, who has not begotten a son, nor has He a partner in sovereignty, nor has He an ally out of weakness, and glorify Him constantly.”

  • @the_abandoned_monastery7218

    It’s because the after-life was not permissible/accessible except through Jesus’ death on the cross. All was for preparation of the coming of Jesus

  • @MrWhite00001
    @MrWhite00001 Před 3 lety +2

    You want reassurance in an after life? Turn to Christ.

    • @TundraDoom
      @TundraDoom Před 2 lety +2

      You want reassurence in an after life? Turn to Allah...or the greek gods, or the hindu ones. Better try all to be sure 🤣

    • @cynthiabowers7815
      @cynthiabowers7815 Před 2 lety

      @@TundraDoom No thank you JESUS CHRIST is enough for me

  • @BobanOrlovic
    @BobanOrlovic Před rokem

    God said that if the Jews broke the covenant they would eat the flesh of their children from starvation.
    Don't give me this altruistic nonsense and not providing incentives.
    God provided MANY incentives, both positive and negative.
    The Jews were commanded to go on two mountains and recite to the people the blessings and curses from obeying the laws or not.

  • @The_Ghost_In_The_Machine_

    How to talk for 7 minutes without actually saying anything.... pathetic

    • @MC-8
      @MC-8 Před 2 lety +4

      So you didn't hear him repeat over and over to do good just because it's good and not because there's a reward after

    • @the_abandoned_monastery7218
      @the_abandoned_monastery7218 Před rokem

      @@MC-8 that’s stupid though. Why shouldn’t good behavior be rewarded? If good behavior isn’t to be rewarded, then good behavior itself is worthless. We live in a world where actions have consequences. The God of this world, if he is truly separate from Jesus, then he is concerned only with the physical and gives an admission of being the Demiurge. If Jesus is God, then God is truly merciful and brings depth to life’s meaning and our interactions in the new life ahead with God. But if Jesus is not God, then God alone is an oppressor.

    • @sciencenotstigma9534
      @sciencenotstigma9534 Před rokem +1

      @@the_abandoned_monastery7218 From a purely selfish standpoint, perhaps…

  • @722guy
    @722guy Před rokem +1

    Focusing on here and now will force you to make decisions which are good for you in the short run.. not for the long run.. Like eating cake instead of going to the gym. This is why judaism doesnt make sense to me

  • @hi7814
    @hi7814 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Afterlife? Look in the Quran

  • @user-ri4lq9cx4x
    @user-ri4lq9cx4x Před měsícem

    Bc there is no afterlife..from dust we are born..to dust we shall return

  • @user-sw5bq3ek8q
    @user-sw5bq3ek8q Před rokem +1

    There is no "after Life" or anthropologic dualism in Torah. The author of Tora didnt believe that humans have an immaterial spirit (or soul) and that soul can survive out of the earthly body .Those are ideas Judaism took from Greeks, specific form Neoplatonism after the 2th century ce. In Torah humans have only a body. You die and that's all. Resurection is an idea prophets took from zoroastrianism , bat again resurection in prophets das not mean immaterial soul, its just mean that God will create again the bodies of the dead peaple