[Avodah] Loving Israel while in Chutz

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:38:32 -0400
Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 02:57:38PM +0300, Michael Makovi wrote:

> : Yes, Rambam does say that techiat hameitim is only temporary, but this
> : is a very strange idea IMHO - why would it even occur to Rambam that
> : we'd be resurrected only to die again? ...
> 
> But the Rambam himself explains why: Because justice requires the soul
> reside again in a body when judged, otherwise the defendent isn't present
> as his own trial. The Ikkarim gives a different answer: This life is

Where does Rambam say this?

...

> But the Rambam didn't "okimta techiyas hameisim away". He made it an
> ikkar emunah. A move that wasn't compelled by the sources; it was
> within his worldiew that ThM is central to defining Judaism!

Rambam in Iggeres Tehias Ha'Mesim says that belief in bodily
resuscitation most definitely *is* compelled by sources, since there are
at least some Biblical verses prophesying its occurrence that cannot be
explained away allegorically.  What is your source for the assertion
that "it was within his worldiew that ThM is central to defining
Judaism"?

> -Micha

Yitzhak
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