[Avodah] mei marom

Eli Turkel eliturkel at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 07:49:23 PDT 2009


Yitzchok Adlerstein wrote:
> I've been trying to introduce a friend of mine to Mei Marom. Someone
> recently presented him with a few of the sefarim, and he came back to
> me scratching his head. He found himself in perek 10 of Urie Veyishi,
> and takes the mechaber to mean, in the words of my friend, that even
> after "Tshuvah Me'Ahavah, a person still needs to be purged of his
> sins in Gehenom.  The Baal Teshuavh will enjoy the pain however,
> because of the realization of the ultimate benefit."

In the story with R, Chananiah ben Tradyon his executor who helped
him and then leaped into the fire was "muzman" to the next world.
RYBS insists that in fact he received the same olam habah as R. Chananiah
ben Tradyon.
Doesnt sound like he went to hell.

-- 
Eli Turkel



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