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— only its own parts. Now I say: the reason every living creature needs food is what the air draws out from its body — three elemental parts: heat, moisture, and cold.
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And it is not only from living creatures that the air draws this — it draws from everything that grows. Proof: if we place a loaf of bread in a room for a long while, we find that the air has drawn out the three parts from it,
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leaving only the earthy part. This is why the bodies of living creatures require food at all times — to have matter placed within them that the air has not yet drawn out.
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For if the air finds nothing to draw from the food, it draws from the body's own original elements, and the body perishes.
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I say: when a person eats an apple, the air draws from his body what had been in the apple — the heat, moisture, and cold — while the earthy part remains and becomes waste that is expelled.
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It is now clear that the apple's parts are dispersed: three go into the air, the fourth into the earth. Since the Creator has not promised to restore the apple, its parts mingle in the great elemental reservoirs, each part joining its element.
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But the human being — because the Creator has promised to gather his parts and restore them to what they were — his parts are therefore set apart and do not mingle with the great elemental reservoirs.
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Rather they remain dispersed until the time of restoration. Even the earthy part that has sunk into the ground — even if it appears to us to have mingled and become hidden from us — it will not be hidden from the Creator.
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Since the matter stands as this explanation describes, the man who was eaten — since nothing of his parts has been annihilated — they are all set aside wherever they came to rest, on land or in the sea, until they are restored in their entirety.
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And this is no more wondrous than their original creation from nothing.
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Perhaps one will think and ask: these resurrected ones in this world — do they eat, drink, and marry or not? We should know that they do eat and drink
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— as we do — and marry, as is clear from the son of the woman of Zarephath and the son of the Shunamite, who were resurrected in this world, ate, drank, and were fit for marriage.
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Some scholars say that children were even born from some of them. And the famous vision that Ezekiel the Priest witnessed — beginning "The hand of the Lord was upon me" to the end — is the proof for resurrection of the dead in this world.
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Their appearance before the prophet — as it says: "The breath came into them and they lived, and they stood on their feet, a very, very great army" — was a proof for the prophet himself.
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For the rest of the nation, the proof will come when they witness with their own eyes those they recognize who have been resurrected and whose lives are restored.
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The lifespan of those whom God resurrected through Ezekiel will be approximately the same as the lifespan of the son of the woman of Zarephath and the son of the Shunamite.
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As for those resurrected at the time of the Redemption — the tradition transmitted to us holds that they do not die again. This follows the teaching of our ancestors: "The dead whom the Holy One will resurrect will never again return to dust."
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When we examine Scripture, we see it reinforces this — for it says that heaven and earth will pass away, yet the salvation will endure: "Lift your eyes to the heavens and look at the earth beneath, for the heavens will dissolve like smoke and the earth will wear out like a garment, and its inhabitants will die like flies; but My salvation will be forever and My righteousness will not fail."
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Now we know that "salvation" is not itself a substance that subsists on its own; rather, by "salvation" he means the people of salvation — just as "the wisest of women has built her house" (Prov. 14:1) means the people of wisdom.
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Chapter 6. Perhaps one will also think and ask: How are they transferred to the World to Come? We should know that the path for these resurrected ones is the same as for all people — a second place is created for them, and they are released from the first place