Peter Popoff
Black uptowns and a chess board nıgga
We have dreams of being other people with different memories then waking back up. Those people may look like us or different (race, gender, etc). shyts crazy.
I believe this is just one of many universes.
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Dreams are just you seeing yourself in a different universe
Chrishaune
Veteran
God is life. Yes He can stop decay. He can tear down and rebuild the universe. He can/does make something out of "nothing", because all life comes from Him. That's what everybody is looking for when they are trying to figure out the universe. God, the beginning and end of all things.
Chrishaune
Veteran
Get slapped in the face by the Truth brehs.
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So I've died in thousands of different universes and
fukked the Bella twins
Bless uo
Koichos
Pro
No comment.
May I draw to your attention the fact that the words שָׁמַיִם shomayim ('heaven') and הַשָּׁמַיִם ha-shomayim ('the heaven') are used more or less interchangeably for the 'place' where Hashem and His angels exist, and what is more that both forms (with or without the definite article ה־) can also be used in an alternative sense, the 'sky' (as, for example, B'reshιth 1:8 וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹקִים לָרָקִיעַ שָׁמָיִם 'then ʾAlohim named the expanse 'sky' [that is to say, 'shomayim']...' and again in B'reshιth 15:5 וַיֹאמֶר הַבֶּט־נָא הַשָּׁמַיְמָה 'and [He] said: Please, look onto 'the sky'...').
However, since שָׁמָיִם shomayim (as in the Creator's 'domain') is not and cannot be a created 'place', we are therefore compelled to admit that the word שָׁמָיִם shomayim throughout the first Creation chapter means 'the sky'; the Torah itself testifies to this in B'reshιth 1:8. In a wider sense, though, the word שָׁמַיִם shomayim can be taken to mean the entire physical universe, as when we talk about what we might see 'in the heavens', so that the expression אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם 'the heaven' includes the earth (given that the earth is part of the physical universe).
What then does the term וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ ('and the land', B'reshιth 1:1) denote? It signifies אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, as Hashem promised ʾAvrohom ʾOvinu:
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Now, 'heaven' as regards 'the afterlife', in Hebrew we have a term עוֹלָם הַבָּא which translates as 'world to come'. Without getting too into the mystical side of things, this is a vague and ill-defined concept in Jewish culture that can be equated both with 'the afterlife' and also with 'the messianic age'; the reason why it is so imprecise is because it really is not that important to us; we are far, far more concerned with the here and now, and we are willing to wait and see—for Hashem to let us know when the time comes. My copy of T'na"ch says:
Put another way, 'Heaven belongs to Hashem and He gave mankind the earth'.
Further, there are three passages at least that hint at what happens after death:
In the most simplistic terms, without delving into Hebrew esoteric tradition, ru'ah, n'shomoh and nafash can be explained as follows:
Note that the nafash alone is what 'sins', not the n'shomoh or the ru'ah (see Wayyiq'roʾ 4:2, 4:27, 5:17 and B'midhbor 15:27, to mention just a few instances); thus, it is our naf'shoth (plural of nafash) which are being 'atoned for' and not our n'shomoth (plural of n'shomoh).
Koichos
Pro
No, you are right—everyone knows where the T'na"ch documents the creation of Heaven and Earth ('At the start of ʾAlohim's creating of Heaven and Earth...'), but I wish just one person would show me a single passage where it says anything about a 'hell' being created.my point still stands
"Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren"
meditate on the word but judge it at your peril.
The word שְׁאוֹל shʾol can be found 66 times in the T'na"ch, in all of the following verses:
All of the above (with the exception of the four instances in B'reshιth, the two in B'midhbor and the two in M'lochim) occur in passages written in poetic language. Now, שְׁאוֹל shʾol does not refer to a specific place, but rather speaks allegorically to the actual state of being dead; the Hebrew expression לָרֶדֶת שְׁאֹלָה 'to descend into shʾol' is a euphemism for 'to die' and nothing more (comparable to the English expression 'to go the grave'). שְׁאוֹל shʾol is just a poetic or allegoric way of referring to 'the grave', although is never used to refer to an actual grave (קֶבֶר); it is only ever used in metaphorical phrases such as אֵרֵד אֶל־בְּנִי אָבֵל שְׁאֹלָה 'I [Yaʿaqov] will go [down] to the grave still in mourning over my son' (B'reshιth 37:35), in which 'I will go down to the grave' is just a euphemistic equivalent of 'to die', 'pass away'.
The Hebrew expression clearly has no connection with the pagan concept of 'hell' as a place of torment, because in B'reshιth 37:35, and again in 42:38, the patriarch Yaʿaqov refers to himself 'going down into shʾol', the latter of these being repeated by his son Y'hudhoh in B'reshιth 44:29,31. Is it credible that Yaʿaqov ʾOvinu would have spoken of himself going to 'hell', and even more so that his son would have referred to his father in those same terms? It therefore ought to be trivially obvious that no such 'place' can possibly be mentioned in the T'na"ch. On a slightly different tack, the word שְׁאוֹל shʾol appears to be related to the noun שְׁאֵלָה shʾeloh (lit., 'a question', derived from the verb-stem שׁאל, 'ask'), possibly signifying that death (or more specifically what happens after it) is the biggest 'question' of all!
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In post-Biblical times, however, Jewish parents began to use it as a kind of boogieman to scare their children. In my great-grandfather's youth (i.e., during the early 1900s, Turkish Palestine), his mother would not allow them (himself or any of his siblings) to go anywhere near עֵמֶק הַחוּלֶה (the Hulah Valley; for those not intimately familiar with the geography of the land, it is located in the extreme northeast of the country close to the pre-1967 border with Syria, north of Yam Kinnarath); going down there was referred to as יְרִידַת שְׁאֹלָה (slang: 'going down into hell'). In those days, the Hulah Valley was still an undrained swamp infested with yatushim (i.e., malaria mosquitoes).
