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DERASH: THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD

The correct Hebrew translation of Isaiah / Yeshayahu 18:3 according to Rabbi Saadiah Gaon (9th century) should be: “All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers IN the earth”. The “inhabitants of the world” refer to the righteous living. The “dwellers in the earth” refer to the righteous dead.

The thirteenth principal of Jewish faith is a believe in the resurrection of the dead. In Daniel 12:2 it is written:

Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.