Would be safe to say that they do not teach endless retributive suffering. ** With respect to the teachings of the present day, I think it — “All who go down into Gehenna rise upĪgain, with the exception of those who go down and do not rise, the This phrase does not, I thmk, imply endless punishment.īabaMaia^ p. Gehenna and are adjudged therein for generation after generation.*’ The principal passages of the Talmud bearing upon the question. Results of his own reflection and investigation,*’ I have refeired to Several Scripture texts bearing upon this point and upon the Views of each rabbi depended on his interpretation of the Matic teaching on the subject of endless punishment and that the He assures me that ** the Jews do not possess any authorised dog. Adler on this subject, and in his very full and courteous reply Which might gratify their passionate, and not unnatural, indignationĪgainst a world which has treated them with such unbounded crueltyĪnd scorn, have yet never held or taught the doctrine of endless Temptation to interpret every passage of it in the darkest sense I have already stated that the Jews, studying the Old Test-Īment without any polemical bias about this subject, and with every The sermons are online – so I’ve copied and pasted the relevant section. His scholarship is diligent (even though it is old and more can be said). Here are Fredrick Farrar’s notes from Excursus V to the published version of his Eternal Hope sermons 1877. People often ask questions about Rabbinical views of the afterlife on this site.
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