[Avodah] Olam Haba is static

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:58:10AM -0400, Rich, Joel wrote:
: I thought (perhaps incorrectly) that let man dpalig that once one leaves
: this world, it's only through the actions of those in this world that
: (s)he can move up.  The original post seemed to me to imply that there
: was a machloket on this point on areivim.

I thought the question on Areivim was in the opposite direction... What
does "moving up" mean? In particular, the "moving" notion doesn't fit
a "static shamayim" (OhB lefi haRambam). How can they change at all?

I gave a teaser implying what I wrote this morning: That the person's
cheshbon, being lemaalah min hazeman, includes all the effects of all
his actions. Including inspiring people to make decisions that occur
after his petirah. (With the usual bit about lemaalah min hazeman being
different than knowing the future -- note the word "future" which isn't
lemaalah min hazeman! Thus no question on his children's bechirah.)

Or, one can leave the worldview of REED et al, but then you have to
explain what time in Shamayim is, and how it stays in sync with time as
it exists here, part of space-time and physics. And in sync with which
relativistic frame of reference?

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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