Lifeline. A Look at Life as a Bridge from the Past to the Future. Volume 3

The chapters in this third volume of the book into chapters unlike in previous volumes in the other books on Halacha (Jewish law), where in each chapter, answer questions or article in question the laws and customs, the author limited known amount of material what he has to say on the subject under discussion.

Not so in this volume: issues and topics are inexhaustible. After all, even if thousands of people lived life Metushelaha and in all my days just wrote about these issues - would rather run out of paper than what they should say.

But each author, who will be able to have their say and to shed new light, was awarded a large reward.

JM Tukachinsky

From the preface of the author's son TO THE SECOND EDITION:

The appearance of Gesher Haim was at one time an important event in the world of Torah, because before no one has yet published so all-encompassing book, laying the foundations throughout this area of the law (relating to the life and death), complex and extensive.

This book is useful and necessary not only to all organizations hev-ry Kaddish in our country and in the Diaspora, but also rabbis, leaders of the Jewish community and to all who keep the Torah and guided in their ways Shulchan Aruch instructions. Like the other books of my father in different areas of the Torah, the book Gesher Haim was adopted as are established by law in your area.

Foreword INTERPRETER

The most important idea of the man, his soul and life itself in people far from the Torah, very different from what we learn from the Torah. Even when these people agree that a person has two elements - body and soul, all their attention is focused on the body - the visible and tangible in this world, not the soul - even perceived by each in itself, but ethereal, mysterious and elusive. .. human life they identify only with the life of the body, in which she mysteriously begins - with full of nothingness, and it is completely finished - as complete nothingness. And all that was between these two points - from infancy to the hour of death, - impressions and experiences of love and hate, sorrow and joy, repose and labor, war and peace, glory and shame, pain and pleasure, victory and defeat, - with the death of the body, how they think, immediately disappears with the personal "I". And the more full, rich and long life to live, the more you will be gone, fail in appalling black abyss ... Is not it better to those who suffered all his life and death does not lose anything, but only gets deliverance. And even if all life makes a person good to others - also it is doomed, goes after him and for them to oblivion ... Why, if so, to do good? And just - the whole human race: The sum of billions of zeros - a zero ... And he said the wisest of men, King Solomon (about the meaning of life not found his): "Everything - emptiness" (in the beginning of his book, Kohelet) ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS

foreword

Chapter One. LOOK AT THE TRANSITION

1) Life as a bridge
2) Habit blinds
3) Creation testifies to his Creator

Chapter Two. LIFE

1) self-awareness of life (time - "he does not have time")
2) The value of life (her days and years)
3) Value of death

Chapter Three. THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE
               AND EVENTS

1) The mystery of life
2) Events that occur with a person
3) The terrible events and outlook
4) Factors determining the events of human life
5) There is no chance in a random
6) Divine management determines

Chapter Four. MAN AND HIS GREATNESS

1) The power of man
2) "I" Who is it?
3) Man and beast

Chapter Five. TORAH AND MAN

1) The Torah - the teacher of life
2) Opening eyes and disclosure of feelings
3) There is no "natural" in nature
4) The Torah - that's life
5) Rise of the Torah

Chapter Six. immortality of the soul

1) The return to power through a "change of clothes"
2) On the life in general
3) Law (the created world)
4) Types of life
5) In reality - there is no absence
6) Also, the energy is not destroyed
7) Lessons and conclusions
8) Purpose
9) And what is that - death?
10) The desire to be reunited with their source
11) The soul was caught between two opposing energies

Chapter Seven. NAME AND IMMORTALITY

1) Source desire for eternal memory
2) Psychological error in the logic of this desire
3) Knowledge of the source

Chapter Eight. RENEWAL OF THE DEAD AND THE WORLD
                COMING

1) Renewal - end of time
2) Renewal of bodies
3) Three final period
4) Who Deserve This?
5) The life of truth