World to come
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Sep 14, 2026
Yaakov WolbeHOST
However, there is a critical difference between how the righteous and how the wicked are rewarded and punished.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
The righteous are punished in this world and rewarded in Olam HaBa, in the afterlife.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
Whereas the wicked, it's the opposite.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
They are rewarded here, and they are punished in the afterlife.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
That's what the Talmud says.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And this is all deduced from the verse that tells us that God is fair, there's no iniquity, his ways are just.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And the obvious question is, wait a minute, how indeed is that fair? The Talmud tells us that one second, one scintilla of reward in Olam HaBa, in the afterlife, outweighs all the potential reward in this world.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And thus, you have two people, one's righteous in general, in aggregate, and the other one is wicked in general, in aggregate, and both do the identical mitzvah, and both are rewarded.
Scott KahnHOST
I once gave a shiur about the concept of smichak u'lalit filash al-aravit, and it deals with specifically this topic.
Scott KahnHOST
That deals with the question of how one can say baruch atah shem ga'al Yisrael, followed by shbon esrei, in Maarev, which you're supposed to do, and we say, who's going to go to Olam Haba, if that's what that means, that's part of the shiur too, what that means exactly, is someone who connects Gal Yisrael to Shbon Esrei, but we say there's a problem, there's Hashkabenu in the middle.
Scott KahnHOST
Anyway, I connect that to what we're talking about now.
Scott KahnHOST
I think it's a worthwhile shiur, but it's not really our topic.
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Wow.
Jonathan LiviHOST
Ve'asef el amechah is one of the phrases used in the Torah for the proof of Olam Haba.
Jonathan LiviHOST
Because nowhere in the Torah and nowhere in Tanakh is Olam Haba mentioned.
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Correct.
Jonathan LiviHOST
You never, you ever know that? It's a very big deal.
Jonathan LiviHOST
People don't know that.
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Of course.
Jonathan LiviHOST
Olam Haba is not mentioned in, in Tanakh.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
The Midrash says that this is such a great song.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
It talks about the present, it talks about the past, it talks about the future, it talks about this world, it talks about Olam HaBa.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And that's why it says in verse forty-four, "Moses spoke all these words." What does it mean, all these words? Everything, because even though it's a very short section of the Torah, it's only a couple of dozen verses, but it covers a lot of themes.
Yaakov WolbeHOST
And the Ramban ends his comment, his essay, by noting that this is an unparalleled prophetic prediction.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
And so it was necessary for them to figure out some way to say to people, "You will be rewarded, uh, for doing righteous deeds, uh, for studying Torah." And so the notion of Olam Haba, uh, which is something which arose perhaps, uh, in the middle of the second century before the Common Era, it certainly is not in the Bible anywhere except a passing reference in the Book of Daniel.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
The notion of Olam Haba, the world to come, becomes very important, and the notion of rewards for righteous become very important.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
We can see this in the transition be- between Hillel's statement.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
So Hillel was b- 70 years before the destruction of the temple, at least.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
Uh, so Hillel's statement is that if you've earned a good name, that's very nice.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
You've earned something very good for yourself.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
But if you study Torah, you get a place in Olam Haba, the world to come.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
By the year 200, 200 years later, uh, Hillel's teaching has become obsolete.
Joseph G. RosensteinGUEST
So the issue of wh- what's the reward for being righteous becomes very, very important.
Joseph G. RosensteinGUEST
And so it was necessary for them to figure out some way to say to people, "You will be rewarded, uh, for doing righteous deeds, uh, for studying Torah." And so the notion of Olam Haba, uh, which is something which arose perhaps, uh, in the middle of the second century before the Common Era, it certainly is not in the Bible anywhere except a passing reference in the Book of Daniel.
Joseph G. RosensteinGUEST
The notion of Olam Haba, the world to come, becomes very important, and the notion of rewards for righteous become very important.
Joseph G. RosensteinGUEST
We can see this in the transition be- between Hillel's statement.
Joseph G. RosensteinGUEST
So Hillel was b- 70 years before the destruction of the temple, at least.
Joseph G. RosensteinGUEST
Uh, so Hillel's statement is that if you've earned a good name, that's very nice.
Joseph G. RosensteinGUEST
You've earned something very good for yourself.
Joseph G. RosensteinGUEST
But if you study Torah, you get a place in Olam Haba, the world to come.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
You've earned something very good for yourself.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
But if you study Torah, you get a place in Olam Haba, the world to come.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
By the year 200, 200 years later, Hillel's teaching has become obsolete.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
In the second century, Shimon Bar Yochai says, The crown of a good name exceeds the crown of a Torah.
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Marc KatzHOST
And I'm curious if you can pull out some of those inconsistencies, some of the times where peer care vote is multi-vocal on an issue, and talk about why you think that adds to the book as opposed to takes away from it.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
Well, I'll go back.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
I think the principal example of what you're asking is what I talked about before, the issue of olam haba and the issue of rewards.
Joseph RosensteinGUEST
Clearly, what happened is that in the second century, there was a lot of debate about this issue, and so there are a lot of different perspectives given on this issue.
Shavi FriedmanHOST
And if you do, well, then you will merit to get all the bracha and the good.
Shavi FriedmanHOST
Maybe not now, maybe not here, but certainly in this new world called Olam Haba, called Yemos HaMashiach, you will get eternal good.
Shavi FriedmanHOST
Please just wait for me.
Shavi FriedmanHOST
Scream out to me.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
It will ruin your parnasah.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
It will ruin your Olam Haba.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
You're gonna lose your Olam Haba.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
Some of the sins will turn you into a goy.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
If you mechallel Shabbat or an idol worshiper, you count like a non-Jew in the eyes of Hashem.
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Yosef MizrachiHOST
And all the ones that I didn't mention, don't worry, Hashem knows who you are.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
So Be'ezrat Hashem, we always organize only events of Torah and Tshuva and Yirat Shamayim and Sichot with good hazanim.
Yosef MizrachiHOST
If you deal with that, Ashrecha baOlam Hazzeh veAshrechem baOlam HaBa.
Yoni FischerHOST
Life and death is... a serious thing, both spiritual life and physical life, both spiritual death and physical death.
Yoni FischerHOST
The main, by the way, parenthetically, the main life that we're asking for on Rosh Hashanah, by the way, is Olam Haba.
Yoni FischerHOST
Just because someone dies doesn't mean that they didn't get written in the Book of Life.
Yoni FischerHOST
There is an aspect of life that we want to be physically alive.
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