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Derech Hashem Part 32 - Resurrection

Jewish Philosophy with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Gottlieb

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The Foreshame Say, the Worm Is as Difficult to the Dead as the Needles Are to Living Flesh

Many commentators point out that a tamburic statement suffers from an imbalance. What it means to tell you is the corpse feels nothing, they say. It's dead flesh, but the soul watching the corpse disintegrate has pain. As much pain as a needle is to living flesh. Dead flesh doesn't feel anything. May say there's no word in the flesh. I mean, cause I'll pay attention to their words. They didn't play around. They put flesh in only once. The worm says flesh once, not twice. It's not parallel. Why is flesh in there only once?

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