[Avodah] yosef kappara

Eli Turkel eliturkel at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 01:18:06 PST 2008


<<Is there some suggestion that even after the demise of Yosef there
was still some opportunity to attain forgiveness and Mechilla?
Aside from going to his Kever with a Minyan, the obvious answer, there
is an implied understanding that even many generations later some type
of reconciliation can be achieved. Does this mean that the old
enmities were still being maintained? All the way down to the 10
Martyrs? And is there some understanding how their suffering brought
reconciliation?>>

I don't see anything about continuing enmity however Judasim does
contain a concept of Kapparah after death. That is fact the essence of
Kadish Yatom and Yizkor and that Yom Kippurim is in the plural because
it is kapparah for the living and those who already died

There is also another medrash (vaguely remember someone else can
supply the details) that when Reuven died his bones were not connected
and he did not get into Gan Eden until Moshe Rabbenu prayed and in
stages brought him to Gan Eden and his proper place (not that I really
understand that medrash)

-- 
Eli Turkel



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