[Avodah] Moshiach-tzeiten

[Jonathan Baker]

Misaskim wrote;

> May Mashiach come very, very soon so that Misaskim and its holy activities
> will no longer be needed among klal Yisroel.

Now there's an interesting theological statement.

Rambam says that Chazal say that there will be no difference between 
Moshiach-tzeiten and today other than that Israel will be independent
and the other nations will cease to bother us.

Moshiach will found a new Davidic dynasty - which means that people
will still need shiva services.

Whose opinion is it that death will cease when Moshiach comes?  

This announcement posits that techias hameisim and/or olam haba (in
its guise as a future world with different reality than ours, rather
than the Maimonidean olam haba, which co-exists with ours and is the
venue for reward after death) will take place coincident with the
advent of Moshiach.

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