Rabbi Yuhanan Mesilat Yesharim 1.17-1.10 (2)

then he will bring a parable from the sages that this world is like dry land and the next world is like the ocean the next world has the potential to be very pleasurable voyage but only if you took a long provisions this ocean is going to continue forever whatever you took with you on the boat from dry land will stay with you for the remainder of the voyage there is no opportunity to stock up you cannot receive a package from this world it's only what you yourself prepared for the next world it's like the sea you can't stop off in the middle of the sea and replenish your supplies therefore while you are still on dry land it's essential to seize the opportunity provided by the mitzvot this brings us to a question why want them in Sword be available anymore why can't we do mitzvot in the next World why is it that we cannot accomplish Miss what after forsaking this life if we understand what olama ba is the question is really a serious one if all our buy is so important and eternal why don't we have opportunity to do something for ourselves in the next world consists of two parts the world of the souls spiritual World which we call Gun Eden to which all those who deserve go immediately after death or soon after if they have to first be purified and gain up that's one part of and then that's one section some go straight to Olam above some first stop at the clinic station getting up and then they go to Allah and the second part of the next world is the Revival of the Dead where when the soul and the body will be reunited in a new sublimely Noble physical existence the utopian world where even the body recognizes and sees Hashem will explain shortly that the ultimate good and our ultimate goal is to be close to Hashem as he says when you look more deeply into this matter you will see that the True Perfection is clinging to Hashem and this is what David Hamill said and as for me the best thing of all is to be close to Hashem the rambam when explaining the first Mitzvah of the Ten Commandments I am Hashem your God says that this Mitzvah is to know and to believe in Hashem so why does mislative tell us that the only route by which we can enter Allah is by means of this world because this is the place where mitzvot are available it seems that this critical Mitzvah would surely become accomplished in Canada I can know Hashem in the next world where sadikim sit and gaze at the Splendor of the sheikhina itself they are fulfilling that Mitzvah in the most glorious possible manner they're actually seeing divine presence if coming close to Hashem is the greatest good there they have it perhaps you'll answer that in Canadian where you will not have a physical body you'll have an intellect but you can't put the feeling on the intellect you cannot do any physical mitzvot you'll have an ishama but in the shama cannot eat matzah but at the time of the hyatami team when the deserving will be reunited with their bodies so then we will have hands and feet and be able to do all of the mitzvot again it will certainly achieve a greater closest to Hashem so why is this world so important now by the way even if it is true that in the world of souls in a world of nishamod the soul of us our soul will be able to see Hashem and no Hashem that is a Mitzvah but the Mitzvah as we said at the beginning is only valuable if there is interference and if there are forces that are trying to stop you and you are overcoming it in this world we open our eyes and everything we see tells us that this world is real and that there is no spiritual world and we have to overcome it and therefore we receive reward for seeing hidden things but in the next World when everything is revealed you're not going to get the reward because it's given to you you don't have to do anything to know Hashem now let's stop over here it's two o'clock and bezat Hashem we will answer these questions and we will ask some more and gain Clarity on Monday thank you very much for listening shabbat shalom um