Monday 30 October 2017

Sanhedrin 107: David barred from the World-to-Come; Gechazi

A brief look at some of the more interesting points from today's daf:

  • we should not bring ourselves to temptation for David did so and failed
  • if one satiates an evil inclination, it craves more.  If one starves it, it is satisfied
  • David said that if he would be torn, his blood would not spill because it already drained when he was shamed
  • Perhaps one who shames another has no share in the World-to-Come
  • G-d forgave David, but only in his son's lifetime
  • Gechazi was not permitted into the World-to-Come when Elisha could not make him repent
  • A baraita teaches: one should repel with the left hand and pull close with the right hand, unlike Elisha who repelled Gechazi with both hands
  • Until Avraham there were no visible signs of old age, until Yaakov there was no weakness, until Elisha no-one recovered from weakness.  In all of those cases, G-d answered people's requests for help
We end with a new Mishna.  It teaches that the generation of the flood has no share in the World-to-Come, but they will not be judged.  Rama says that this is because they already received their punishment in the form of the flood.  The generation of the dispersion has no share in the World-to-Come, either.

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