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And I'll give you an example I have talked about this I don't know if I have on the air but many many years ago in fact shortly after I arrived in l.a. . His name I won't mention he was a legend in Los Angeles and I attended a funeral at which he spoke and non-Orthodox rabbi and he said Of course there is we Jews don't believe in an afterlife we live on through our good deeds and through the memory of our children. And I said to myself at the time that is far more irrational than anyone who believes in the resurrection of the Dead in fact it's not just irrational it's stupid 1st of all why do you want to if you have no children so you don't live all right secondly if you do have children how many of us can name our great grandparents just made them forget know anything about them are they living on through us of course not yeah as for the good idea exactly I'm sorry to say that bad deeds do a lot more immortal work than good deeds so this nonsense of the deniers of the afterlife dwarfs the nonsense of believers in the afterlife. I agree with you I agree with you and look I said before just just really look at a single body and you will see in a very real and construal way that that is not the sum total of who we are it's the best you know when I'm talking to children about goals I like to use the metaphor of a coon and about of. The body is a cocoon when we die it releases the butterfly and the scene this makes perfect sense told him by the way. And it's a it's a good way to think about it. For young people and it's a beautiful image as well but but you're right I mean it's a ridiculous notion that we live on in memory because at some point the man registered at him quickly credibly famous remember yes exactly Ok So that brings me to my challenge to you what I said to you do you say to parents who lost their child you will see your child and you say you don't because you can't be certain so of course but what we can't be certain that there was a soul either I mean that we we rationally believe there was a soul but we're not certain So what prevents you from giving that comfort which would not defy what I'm not asking you to say things you don't believe well you do believe it afterlife so why wouldn't you say that to to that parent because I don't I don't envision and obviously can there's no way to be certain for me I don't envision. A decomposed body returning back to its former state body of that and being reunited with that child so. I don't know what you mean reunited with a child's body or reunited with that child's soul well when you say when you say you're going to see your child up Ok self I see you're very your take on we're seeing literally Ok that's fair correct as would. With both parents in that vulnerable state so would you say you want you and you will experience your child again I would say something like your souls will be together something like that to do you say it you know I'm not trying I'm I'm you know about how to get a handle that oh. Yes I I have said I do I said every time you know because you know Dennis all deaths are the same and they're all very different and you have to assess the emotional state of the of the grieving parents you have to assess it you have to know how much to say and how quickly to say it people are open to things a month or 2 later that they simply cannot hear the day ugh. So you know you have to really understand this is art. 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Staying with Rabbi Steve leader will shrivel of our temple Los Angeles California his book The beauty of what remains reflections it's not the subtitle I'm telling you what it's about and that is about death. You know it's funny and I'm very very early age I thought about this stuff for when I was a kid I was not normal in that way and it wasn't that at all dark I just thought about it and I realized that a very young age that. There's a there's a terrible I don't know if terrible is the word but terrible irony. That destiny like I think that's is awful why we lose people we love we value I mean there's no way around it on the other hand it's exactly what gives meaning to life . That's right that's right what it that's less what would it deathless life really mean what would that mean to be a death wish well as the right I guess I always say I mean if you know I'll read the book for years from now. If I think it's more than that I think it would need to be something other than human you know Kafka said the meaning of life is that it and it's very simple and absolutely true and and it is only death that impels us to think deeply in seriously about how we live our lives right so I'll give you a good example during the pandemic do you think this virus did not have the least fallacy that. You think for a minute. There would have been this global pause and people have changed their lives so dramatically as a result not a chance if it was a bad flu we'd all still be living our crazy crazy former lives and I'm not here to dismiss the misery of this pandemic and its suffering but it has taught us because of it's without it and it has taught us some very very important lessons it has taught us something we know but don't always live which is that it's who we have not what we have that matters it has it has taught us about loss the loss of freedom the loss of invulnerability the loss you know I think the worst loss of a pandemic or the death of course is the simple. Opportunity to hug people to hold to be held by other people you know to to know that no matter how many times we said I love you and no matter how many times we embrace it's never enough it's never enough with out death those are very things to forget right that's that is entirely accurate tell me what you think of my argument on behalf of the afterlife that I have offered all of my life and on this radio show. If God if there is a God there are 2 ifs if there is a God and God is good or better if God is just there must be an afterlife it's axiomatic you can't have a good God I mean no afterlife. What do you think of that argument. I think it's true but again of course the issue is in the detail what exactly what is the nature of that afterlife you know do we simply return to some pool of energy from which we were born well or. Well if it's a pool of energy with no consciousness then it's as if there isn't an afterlife it would seem to me. To some to some that would be an afterlife honestly I know that I know that your man in my life does believe that but I I am not comforted by an afterlife of no consciousness right I understand some people are you are not or you are you and. I think well 1st of all I would obviously being a spiritual oriented person I would accept whatever God's plan is for my soul and the act alike whether that's consciousness or lack there up and you know you made a point about God being just I think it's important to remember and you know as well as I do that when sapphire made this point in his book Job The 1st incident that that earthly justice and cosmic Jessel are not necessarily the same thing. Well and so when you have to really think about what you mean by just right well it could be job Abraham was mixed and Abraham inertly said I use Abraham Abraham argued with God or you are if you're if you're just you'll say 50 decent people in Sabah so. The implication of that argument between Abraham and God is that we do share a similar view of justice. Except except it doesn't always happen that way. Well not on this not on this planet not not in this anyway that's not here or there that I was just I was just curious how you deal with it does it give you peace that there is a soul Very much so there is not so it gives me peace for my own soul and it gives me peace for the souls of the people like people who love her dog very much so yes and you know again this is part of what I mean when I say the beauty of what remains. There is a soul and it does remain and it is beautiful and it's beautiful to think of the soul that remains from both of us who are left behind by the death of a loved one and you know I think that that morning. Is such an important dance with that memory and that soul that that's the thing about morning you know we were talking about that sermon earlier and what I had to change from that sermon and and the biggest thing I changed was my understanding of grief your generation we're not quite the same age but we're in the same generation Dennis and the ones below us I think we're done a terrible disservice by the idea that there are stages to Greece. Because of their status to Greece that means that Greece is a linear process 1st to. Even see them and then it's all over and that's not true he will live from Tom Friedman about the Middle East in the book I say anyone who thinks the sort of distance between 2 points is a straight line not understand great cool. Cools the right edge. Will be back in a moment the Dennis Prager Show. 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