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JUDGMENT DAY
This Life & the Next The afterlife is not our focus but we must accept its reality
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abbi Yaakov says, “This world is like a hallway (prozdor) before the World to Come. Fix yourself in the hallway so you may enter the drawing room (traklin)” (Avos 4:16). Maimonides writes: A traklin is a chamber and a prozdor is a gatehouse. And the metaphor is clear and the intention is known. As it is in this world that man acquires the virtues through which he merits the World to Come. As this world is indeed a path and a passageway to the World to Come.
RABBI ISRAEL CHAIT Transcribed by a student
Rashi writes: Every man must fix himself in this world with repentance and good deeds, for one who toils on Friday will eat on Shabbos (one who toils in this world will enjoy the next world). Rabbeinu Yona writes: And he wants to say that this world is only so that one merits the World to Come. (CONT. ON NEXT PAGE)
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