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Moses Maimonides' Treatise On Resurrection

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'Resurrection's is a fundamental teaching of Judaism, and one of the Rambam's thirteen principles of faith.
As Rav Yoni Berlin explained it the Rambam's belief in bodily ressurection related only to a small group of people i.e. those Tsaddikim whose return to earth could bring additional good to Mankind.
It is important here to distinguish between this process of physical bodily ressurection on earth, and the ultimate fate of all which is to be our life in the world- to- come. As I understand it the Rambam teaches that the life- in- the - world to come is a life of the soul.
This small volume gives the views of arguably the greatest of all Jewish thinker on an important subject of Judaism. Thus, its great value.

Considering the price tag that this text carries, one would be much better off buying any other Maimonides text. This book is nothing more than a supporting document of the Mishneh Torah and the Guide for the Perplexed. It doesn't nothing but direct the author in one of these directions. There aren't even any excerpts from the texts, just the classic, "see my writing in...". Don't waste your money. The only thing it does say is that Maimonides believed in a resurrection of the dead.