Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The bodies were [and will be] completely spiritual
Ohr Hatorah, Bereishis vol. VII (page 2326 (1163a))
Friday, June 12, 2009
Bodies of the Future (part IV)
Sefer Hamaamorim 5711 (Rebbe Rayatz) p.207
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Bodies of the Future (Part III)
Sefer Hamaamorim 5711 (Rebbe Rayatz) p.207
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Bodies of Future (part II)
Sefer Hamaamorim 5711 (Rebbe Rayatz) p.207
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Bodies of the future (Part I)
It is known that the Resurection of the Dead will be after the days of Moshiach[...] Now, in the days of Moshiach the bodies will be completely refined, as it says "I will remove the spirit of impurity from the land," and as a consequence of the removal of the impurity, all the materiality and physicality will be refined, until even among animals and beasts the pollution will cease. This is as it states "the wolf will dwell with the lamb and the cow and bear, etc"
Specifically it the bodies of human beings that will be the most refined, but nonetheless there will be bodies which will be born from a physical mother and father from a natural physical desire. This desire, however, will not be a material desire at all, and there will be no admixture of evil in it, as it says in the Zohar "the tree of knowledge of good and evil will be removed from the world" (Zohar III 124b). Nevertheless, there will be a natural desire, and this is like Adam Harishon before the sin, that he didn't have material desires at all, just the "will", like the "will" to eat, not for fulfilling his desires but rather for the connection of the soul and body that comes about from the eating. And so, too, the union of man and woman was out of the desire to bring children.
Sefer Hamaamorim 5711 (Rebbe Rayatz) p.20
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Resurrection: An Intermediary Stage
So, too, in the days of Moshiach there will be a resurrection of the dead as an intermediary level until the World to Come in the 7th millenium. The difference between immersing in the Nahar Dinur or becoming nullified in the pillar [on the one hand] and the level of intermediary in the days of Moshiach which refers to the resurrection of the dead, is that the immersion in the Nahar Dinur is nullification for the soul alone and not the physical bodies. But the resurrection that is after the days of Moshiach is the aspect of nullification for the bodies as well, meaning that the physical bodies themselves will grasp the Divine light and they will be on the level of self-nullification of their very existence.
Maamorim of the Alter Rebbe, 5565, I:412
Sunday, May 31, 2009
G-dly Bodies
Maamorim Mitteler Rebbe, Vayikra II p. 686
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Refining the Body to Surpass Adam Harishon
Maamorim Mitteler Rebbe, Vayikra II p. 686