[Judaic] Resurrection is the embodied restoration of the dead in the World-to-Come. First mentioned explicitly in the Book of Daniel, resurrection has been a central concept if the afterlife in Judaism; Maimonides regarded it to be one of the thirteen doctrines a faithful Jew must believe. On Judgment Day, all the dead will be resurrected with the blast of a shofar and be judged. The righteous, as well as those who have atoned for their sins through time spent in Gehenna, will know eternal life in a perfected body. Those who constitute the incorrigible sinners will be annihilated, body and soul, and their memory blotted out from under heaven. One obscure mystical text, Sefer Tagi, by Eleazer of Worms, suggests that the truly righteous today have the power to resurrect the dead, as demonstrated by the examples of Elijah, Elisha, and Ezekiel. This power, however, is not a miracle performed by God through the agency of these prophets. Rather, the power to resurrect is a result of the saint's own ...
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