The doctrine of the resurrection is clearly taught in the Talmud. As for
the last judgment, the following story is told: “Said Antoninus to Rabbi,
The body and soul can free themselves from judgment. How? The body can
say, The soul sinned from the time it separated from me, while I lay as a
stone in the grave. And the soul can say, The body sinned from the time it
separated from me, while I flew in the air as a bird.” He replied, “I will
give you an example to which it is like. It is like a king of flesh and
blood, who has a beautiful garden, and in which are pleasant fruits, and
he placed two watchmen therein, of whom one was lame and the other was
blind. Said the lame to the blind, ‘I see pleasant fruits in the garden;
come, and let me sit upon thee, and let us go and eat.’ ” The lame sat
upon the blind, and they went and ate. After some days the lord of the
garden came, and said, “Where are my pleasant fruits?” The lame said, “I
have no legs to go to them.” The blind said, “I have no eyes to see them.”
What did he do? He set the lame upon the blind, and judged them as one. So
the blessed God will return the soul into the body, and judge them as one,
as it is said, “He shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth,
that he may judge his people” (Ps. iv. 4). He shall call to the heavens
from above, that is the soul; and to the earth that he may judge his
people, that is, the body. After the resurrection men will live without
work or weariness of body, their houses shall be of precious stones, and
their beds of silk, and the rivers shall run with wine and perfumed oil.
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