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Max, an inheritance is something that is left to someone upon the death of someone else!


Shalom Sophiee,

I still think your claim is unsupported. If this is about the prince dying, then how can he get it back after the jear of liberty according to verse 17? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever in light of your interpretation.

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Max, the messiah will be a mortal human life the rest of us.

Isaiah 25:8 means that will we no longer be killed by our enemies (think Holocaust). Rambam tells us that in the messianic era there will be the resurrection of the dead andthe world would continue for several hundred generations, only in order for everyone to die and their souls to return to the Garden of Eden.

Radak says it means that our enemies will stop killing us (B"H).

When Isaiah says there will be no more death it means our immortal souls, not necessarily our bodies. Our bodies may very well still die and per Rambam, Radak and others they do.


Well Radak and the Rambam may say that, but that is not what the text says. It says that there will be no more death, period. Nothing less, nothing more. And your claim that Isaiah means our immortal soul with "no more death"? That's kinda logical, isn't it? Seeing that an immortal soul can't die in the first place. That's like saying that a brick won't move one inch by itself. Well, that's because it can't! So I find your explanation to be severely lacking.

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And in answer to your parting shot -- no we do not have to "believe" in the messiah. Neither did we have to "believe" in Moses. We believed in G-d who we heard for ourselves at Sinai.


But we didn't hear God for ourselves untill we got to Sinai. Before that we were depending on Moses' works and had to accept him. Rejecting Moses was meant rejecting Gods ways of salvation. This is simple fact. So before we heard Gods voice in Mt. Sinai, we had to trust Moses and believe in what he said, because there was no alternative way to please God than to accept His messenger and listen to his voice.

Shalom
Max