וקנסתי מיתה על אדם הראשון.
and I decreed death on Adam the first man, to demonstrate that he was human and not a god.
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וקנסתי מיתה על אדם הראשון.
and I decreed death on Adam the first man, to demonstrate that he was human and not a god.
מאי ״ועל מקראה״? אמר רבה אמר רבי יוחנן: לא כירושלים של עולם הזה ירושלים של עולם הבא; ירושלים של עולם הזה – כל הרוצה לעלות עולה, של עולם הבא – אין עולין אלא המזומנין לה.
§ The Talmud returns to the aforementioned verse: “And YHWH will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over those who are invited to it, a cloud and smoke by day” (Isaiah 4:5). What is the meaning of the phrase: “And over those who are invited to it”? Rabba says that R' Yoḥanan says: Jerusalem of the World-to-Come is not like Jerusalem of this world. With regard to Jerusalem of this world, anyone who wants to ascend there can ascend. With regard to Jerusalem of the World-to-Come, only those who are invited to it can ascend.
ואמר רבה אמר רבי יוחנן: עתידין צדיקים שנקראין על שמו של הקדוש ברוך הוא, שנאמר: ״כל הנקרא בשמי ולכבודי בראתיו, יצרתיו אף עשיתיו״. ואמר רבי שמואל בר נחמני אמר רבי יוחנן: שלשה נקראו על שמו של הקדוש ברוך הוא, ואלו הן: צדיקים, ומשיח, וירושלים.
And Rabba says that R' Yoḥanan says: In the future, the righteous will be called by the name of God; as it is stated: “Every one that is called by My name, and whom I have created for My glory, I have formed him, yea, I have made him” (Isaiah 43:7). This indicates that one who was created by God and causes Him glory is called by His name. And R' Shmuel bar Naḥmani says that R' Yoḥanan says: 3 were called by the name of God and they are: The righteous, and the Messiah, and Jerusalem.
צדיקים – הא דאמרן. משיח – דכתיב: ״וזה שמו אשר יקראו ה׳ צדקנו״. ירושלים – דכתיב: ״סביב שמנה עשר אלף, ושם העיר מיום ה׳ שמה״, אל תקרי ״שמה״ אלא ״שמה״. אמר רבי אלעזר: עתידין צדיקים שאומרים לפניהן ״קדוש״ – כדרך שאומרים לפני הקדוש ברוך הוא, שנאמר: ״והיה הנשאר בציון והנותר בירושלם, קדוש יאמר לו״.
With regard to the righteous, this is as we have just said. With regard to the Messiah, this is as it is written: “And this is his name by which he should be called, YHWH is our righteousness” (Jeremiah 23:6). With regard to Jerusalem, this is as it is written: “It should be 18,000 reeds round about. And the name of the city from that day should be, YHWH is there [shamma]” (Ezekiel 48:35). Do not read the word as “there” [shamma]; rather, read it as: YHWH is its name [shemah]. R' Elazar says: In the future, the righteous will have the name: Holy, recited before them, as one recites before God; as it is stated: “And it should come to pass, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, should be called holy” (Isaiah 4:3).
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