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== Eternal Life for Those Who Rise in the Resurrection ==

==== The Dispute Between Rambam and Ramban ====
There was a dispute between Rambam and Ramban regarding the resurrection of the dead:

According to Rambam's view, they will rise to life, but after some time they will all return to dust, and then they will exist eternally as souls without bodies.

Ramban disagrees with him and says that they will rise to life and will never return to dust but will live and exist forever. Regarding Rambam's question that if so, the digestive organs of a person would be unnecessary (since one would not eat or drink), he answers that it's possible they will be nourished from the manna and the like.

==== The Decision of Chassidut ====
Chassidic teachings decide in favor of Ramban's opinion that the ultimate purpose is the World of Resurrection, in which everyone will live forever. Regarding the manner of existence, it is explained that the superiority of the body will then be revealed, meaning the divine life-force that animates it, which is higher than the source of the soul's life-force, to the extent that even the soul will be nourished from the body. This form of existence is like physical eating and drinking (as it is written, "And they beheld God, and they ate and drank" - the vision was in the manner of eating and drinking).
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