Olam Haba
The term Olam Haba ( Hebrew עוֹלָם הַבָּא) or Ha'olam Ha-Bah ( Hebrew העולם הבא) comes from the Talmud , one of the most important written works of Judaism , and literally means "the world to come". This means paradise , also called Paradeisos . In the Tanach there are only a few lines of text that deal with the time after one's own death, so in the Book of Daniel 12.2 EU it is reported that many are sleeping under the ground. They would wake up and some to eternal life but some to eternal shame and shame.
In the Mishnah tractate Avod 4:16 , the present world ( Hebrew עולם הזה Olam HaSzeh “this world”) is only described as a vestibule of the future world. The Mishnah forms the basis of the Talmud, it came from the circle of Rabbi Jehuda ha-Nasi in the early 3rd century from Galilee .
Even in the ancient Jewish faith there were great differences between the Perushim ( Pharisees ), the Zadokim ( Sadducees ) and the Jachad ( Essenes ). So that the belief in the beyond of the Olam HaBah was developed late in Jewish history.
With Olam Haba an otherworldly 'form of existence' is understood. The term refers to the spiritual afterlife . Belief in the resurrection describes a principle of traditional Judaism. The idea of Olam Haba is related to the messianic time, it is called Olam Haba . As it dawns, a perfect world of peace and prosperity will be ushered in, and then the righteous would be brought back to life. They would then be given the opportunity to experience a world which they helped perfect through their righteousness. The Olam Haba thus refers to two different concepts:
- A world of souls ( Hebrew עולם הנשמות olam haneshamot ), in which the human soul is separated from his body after death and receives retribution for his actions in the world of the living;
- A world that will have arrived in its fullness after the coming of the Messiah at the end of days (cf. ancient Greek ἔσχατον eschaton ).
At the time of the Mishnah and Talmud, the meaning lay in the first concept, the second concept corresponds to the rabbinical tradition.
Web links
- Olam Ha-Ba, Jewish Virtual Library English
- Olam Ha-Ba: The Afterlife
- Noemi Berger: Olam Haba. Religious terms from the world of Judaism , in Jüdische Allgemeine , December 12, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Noemi Berger: "Olam Haba" literally means "the world to come". It is understood as a kind of otherworldly form of existence. Jüdische Allgemeine February 8, 2020 - 13th Schwat 5780, online December 9, 2013 [1]