מעין העולם הבא.
of the World-to-Come, when plowing and harvesting will take place at the same time. Here too, the oxen plowed and the donkeys grazed on the crops that grew from that effort.
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מעין העולם הבא.
of the World-to-Come, when plowing and harvesting will take place at the same time. Here too, the oxen plowed and the donkeys grazed on the crops that grew from that effort.
״עוד זה מדבר – וזה בא, ויאמר: אש אלהים וגו׳. עוד זה מדבר – וזה בא, ויאמר: כשדים שמו שלשה ראשים, ויפשטו על הגמלים ויקחום וגו׳. עוד זה מדבר – וזה בא, ויאמר: בניך ובנותיך אוכלים ושותים יין בבית אחיהם הבכור, והנה רוח גדולה באה מעבר המדבר, ויגע בארבע פנות הבית ויפל על הנערים וגו׳. ויקם איוב ויקרע את מעלו ויגז את ראשו וגו׳, ויאמר: ערום יצאתי מבטן אמי, וערום אשוב שמה; ה׳ נתן וה׳ לקח, יהי שם ה׳ מבורך. בכל זאת לא חטא איוב ולא נתן תפלה לאלהים.
The Talmud continues to interpret verses from the book of Job. “While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said: The fire of God has fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them…While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said: The Chaldeans formed 3 bands, and fell among the camels, and have carried them away, and have slain the servants with the edge of the sword…While he was yet speaking, there came also another and said: Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house; and, behold, there came a great wind from across the wilderness, and struck the 4 corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead…Then Job arose, and rent his coat, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground and prostrated himself. And he said: I came naked out of my mother’s womb, and naked I should return there; YHWH gave, and YHWH has taken away, blessed be the name of YHWH. In all this Job sinned not, nor did he lay reproach on God” (Job 1:16–22).
ויהי היום, ויבאו בני האלהים להתיצב וגו׳. ויאמר ה׳ אל השטן: אי מזה תבא? ויען השטן את ה׳, ויאמר: משט בארץ [וגו׳]״ – אמר לפניו: רבונו של עולם, שטתי בכל העולם, ולא מצאתי כעבדך אברהם – שאמרת לו: ״קום התהלך בארץ לארכה ולרחבה, כי לך אתננה״, ובשעה שבקש לקבור שרה, לא מצא מקום לקוברה – ולא הרהר אחר מדותיך.
“Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before YHWH, and the Satan came also among them to present himself before God. And YHWH said to the Satan: From where do you come? And the Satan answered YHWH, and said: From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it” (Job 2:1–2). The Satan said before God: God! I have gone to and fro across the entire world and have not found anyone as faithful as your servant Abraham, to whom you said: “Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you” (Genesis 13:17). And when he wanted to bury Sarah, he could not find a place to bury her, and yet he did not criticize Your ways, or accuse You of having failed to keep Your promise.
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