Q&A: Pharaoh's Chariot
Pharaoh's Chariot
Question
Rabbi Meir Eliyahu has published a new set of books dealing with what happens after death: the heavenly court, reincarnation, the slingshot of souls, Gehenna, the Garden of Eden, and so on and so on.
Do you believe in things like that?
Would you be interested in reading it?
If you did read it, would you believe what it says?
Answer
I don't know who the above-mentioned person is, but I don't believe a single word in books like that, regardless of the identity of the author. No person can know anything about these matters, so everything is presumed to be made up. In any case, it doesn't interest me, and of course I won't read it.
Discussion on Answer
Is there any way to know something about the state after death? Through speculation, or analysis of consciousness, for example?
Most of the sources he brings there are from the Zohar; if the Rabbi believes in the Zohar, why not read the above-mentioned book?
"But I don't believe a single word in books like that, regardless of the identity of the author. No person can know anything about these matters, so everything is presumed to be made up."
Indeed, no person nowadays can, but he didn't write it on his own; it's all with sources from the Zohar and the kabbalists.
How can the Rabbi state so categorically that it's impossible to know anything about the subject? There is a lot of testimony, for example about people who came back from the dead. That's one way to accumulate knowledge on the subject. Maybe there are others.