[Avodah] meein olam haba

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:03:29PM -0500, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
: R' Simon Krysl:
:> could anyone refer me to the origin of the phrase "meein olam haba...
:> yom shabbat" outside of the zemer Ma Yedidut?

: Eitz Yosef on Mah Yedidos points us to Berachos 57b where the Gemara says so.

It's also a simple description of a time when "Avraham yageil, Yitchaq
yeranein, Yaaqov uvanav yanuchu vo..."

Also, referenced in the T-sh-r-q sequence of rashei teivos in Tiqanta
Shabbos -- that Shabbos works from the now to Olam haBa. (As opposed to
alef-beis sequence of beri'ah -- from the One to the now.

Point being, even without the gemara making the idea explicit, we should
be aware of it taken for granted in our tefillos.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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