Know with a certainty that I innovate nothing herein. Everything that is to follow has Sacred Jewish Sources in Judaism's Holy literature. They corroborate what I am about to share via the summary below. While I appreciate that what follows goes diametrically against the mindsets of modern rational logic... and common global understanding arising from millennia of human experience...it is nonetheless true beyond doubt. Brace yourself for some startling information that should forever change your grasp of life and death.
Practically all of mankind knows of but two states of existence...life or death. When death occurs the former life is seemingly over for good. Physical empirical evidence and "common sense" certainly support this perception.
However, it is now almost ten years after the passing of Rabbi Schneerson was reported in the world media (1994.) In spite of this "fact" there is a growing number of learned Rabbis who are publicly stating that the now seemingly "dead" Rabbi Schneerson will reappear...a soul in a living body… to redeem world Jewry and all of mankind.
It is a fair question to ask whether these Rabbis are espousing an irrational faith. Or do they possibly know some matters that are unknown to the rest of mankind?
To those who see death as being irrefutably final... then no amount of evidence to the contrary will sway their thoughts. To those willing to learn I present to you the following. Some of the deepest secrets of Judaism's Torah, Talmud and Kaballah are now to follow.
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Jacob our Forefather never died
We learned... that Judaism's King Messiah will be a human being that will change the world radically for the good. We also learned that desiring the arrival of Judaism's King Messiah (and, of course, the Final Redemption itself) is central to Judaism. Then we learned from Talmud Sanhedrin p.98b that it is very possible that Judaism's King Messiah CAN come from the dead. Now we will learn that according to the Torah, some people never die...
Let us begin with what the Talmud in Tanit 5b tells us:
"JACOB OUR FATHER NEVER DIED"! The Torah (Genesis 49:33, 50:4,15) is only telling us what appeared to have happened; that he died, was embalmed and buried ...but in fact he is STILL PHYSICALLY ALIVE!
Elsewhere (Talmud Sota 13b) it says the same thing about Moses; "MOSES DID NOT DIE".
In the Talmudic Tractate Rosh HaShanna (25b) it says that King David didn't die, and to this day when the Jews do the ritual of sanctifying the moon at the beginning of each month they say "DAVID THE KING OF ISRAEL LIVES AND EXISTS!"
Similarly in the Talmud K'tuvot (104a) it tells us that AFTER Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi died and was buried, he actually RETURNED HOME every Sabbath and made Kiddush [the Blessing over wine] for his family for quite some time (which conveys that according to Torah Law he was "physically" alive)!
Similarly in the Talmudic Tractate Baba Metzia (84b); Rabbi Elezar ben Shimon died but his wife was afraid to bury him because he had many enemies [who may have desecrated his grave] so she put his body in the attic. The Talmud tells us that people, not knowing he was dead, continued visiting his house to ask Jewish Bible Legal questions and he actually SHOUTED down such Laws from his attic for many years until she finally had to bury him.
And in the Talmud Yebamos (96b) it says that the physical lips of EVERY Torah Scholar (even those that died more than 2000 years ago), actually MOVE AND SPEAK in the grave when someone learns their teachings aloud!
Finally, we bring one more example (although there are more): the Midrash Yalkut Shimoni (Yechezkel 367) lists nine people that did not "taste death" but went into Heaven alive. One of them is the Prophet Eliyahu [Elijah] (Kings 2, 2:11) (who still attends every Jewish circumcision!), and another will be Judaism's King Messiah.
What does all this mean? Any normal, rational person will certainly think that all the above is not to be taken seriously. After all, we have heard of life after death in Heaven, and even in reincarnations... but how can people live IN THEIR PHYSICAL BODIES after they are dead?
How can the Talmud say that Jacob is still alive? Doesn't the Talmud know that Kiriat Arba [a city in Israel] is called 'Arba' (four) because there are four holy couples buried there, and Jacob is among them? And how are we expected to believe that Eliyahu [Elijah] is actually present at every circumcision? Who sees him? This is contrary to scientific observation and COMMON SENSE!
The answer to all these questions can be found in a book written over 400 years ago called 'Avodat HaKodesh' by Rav Mair ben Gabbai (Part 2 chap.19).
He brings several Torah proofs that man was originally created to LIVE FOREVER in A PHYSICAL BODY, and this pure eternal body STILL EXISTS.
But since the sins of Adam and later that of the Golden Calf brought death into the world, this body is too pure to be seen. In fact, what we perceive today as our human body is only 'covering' the TRUE invisible (to our eyes) physical body, which is eternal.
Therefore, he concludes, it is possible for Tzadikim (the perfectly Righteous) to live eternally PHYSICALLY without change even after their 'death', because they live true lives and pay no attention to this false shell [worldly pleasures.]
He even brings two proofs that the body is unending. The first is: "If the planets, which were created to serve man, will (according to Judaism) last forever ... how much more so the human body which was created to serve G-d."
The second is: "If the covenant (Noah 9:15) of the rainbow protects the world from destruction, how much more so the covenant of circumcision protects the body from destruction."
"But", he continues, "because we do not perceive anything eternal, therefore there are 'Hellenistic' Jews [and similarly science based Gentiles] that refuse to accept the truth that the physical bodies of the Righteous live eternally".
After all this we see that there are three ways that the Judaism's King Messiah may arrive:
1) He will come from the living.
2) He will arise from the dead (like Rabbi Schneerson said would happen with his father-in-law the Previous Rebbe).
3) Or Judaism's King Messiah will only appear to be dead, but will actually be alive in his "true" physical body…
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SUMMARY
Prior to his “passing” in 1994 it was established and widely believed amongst the greatest Rabbis of this generation [some privately some publicly] that Rabbi Schneerson was Judaism’s King Messiah. More importantly [and the final Word for our intents and purposes] Judaism now has independent Divine Corroboration that Rabbi Schneerson is indeed mankind’s only King Messiah.
Who is more knowledgeable about Judaism’s King Messiah than Judaism’s King Messiah, himself?
Prior to his “passing” in 1994 Rabbi Schneerson distributed Chassidic Discourses that addressed specifically this topic of life, death, concealment, resurrection and eternal life of the physical body (even after a seeming “death” of the physical body has occurred.)
Additionally one specific discourse explains all the details of why Judaism’s King Messiah needs to seemingly “die” [from our worldly, physical perspective] and what happens as a consequence of and during that “passing.”
Numerous other foreseen and foretold world events [that have recently happened…and are still happening] entirely support the foreknown world events scenario that occurs concurrently with the arrival of Judaism’s King Messiah.
The fact is that Judaism’s King Messiah’s “passing” is not the end of his being Judaism’s King Messiah. Rabbi Schneerson clearly and repeatedly conveyed that Judaism’s King Messiah can and will return from the “dead.”
When Rabbi Schneerson reappears imminently in our days…thereupon that Event is going to seize and dominate every media known to man. Wall to wall global coverage will without doubt ensue. I fear that great panic, mass religious crises and disinformation will occur from the public’s lack of knowledge of this inherently Jewish topic. Countless people are going to be blindsided from their lack of proper emotional preparation and understanding for and of this Event.
I therefore ask you to give this information the greatest possible publicity.
Rabbi Moshe Yess
