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Yes, there is a belief in the afterlife, although the Biblical description of it in the Torah is somewhat vague. In general, the Torah/Pentateuch indicates in several places that the righteous will be reunited with their loved ones after death, while the wicked will be excluded from this reunion. Belief in the eventual resurrection of the dead is a fundamental belief of traditional Judaism. It was a belief that distinguished the Pharisees (intellectual ancestors of Rabbinical Judaism) from the Sadducees. The resurrection of the dead will occur in the messianic age, a time referred to in Hebrew as the Olam Ha-Ba, the World to Come, but that term is also used to refer to the spiritual afterlife. When the messiah comes to initiate the perfect world of peace and prosperity, the righteous dead will be brought back to life and given the opportunity to experience the perfected world that their righteousness helped to create. The wicked dead will not be resurrected. The Talmud states that all may share in the Olam Ha-Ba, Jew and Gentile alike. However, not all ‘shares’ are equal. A particularly righteous person will have a greater share in the Olam Ha-Ba than the average person. In addition, a person can lose his share through wicked actions. There are many statements in the Talmud that a particular mitzvah will guarantee a person a place in the Olam Ha-Ba, or that a particular sin will lose a person’s share in the Olam Ha-Ba, but these are generally regarded as hyperbole, excessive expressions of approval or disapproval.
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Name : K. Greenberg, Gender : F, Age : 50, City : Northampton, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : consultant/doctoral student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,>I bought a bagel with cream cheese, some sort of sweet macaroni and cheese dish, a coconut dessert and some tuna salad.< As someone who lives in a Jewish household, we would call it 'Jewish food' rather than Hebrew food. Judaism covers a multitude of regions across the world, as as such, have picked up many recipes from each culture in which Jews lived. The bagel, for example, comes from Poland, the sweet macaroni and cheese is kugel, which is from Germany, etc. When I think of 'Hebrew food' I think of food as eaten in ancient times, such as certain lamb dishes, which usually have a decidedly Middle Eastern flair.
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Name : K. Greenberg, Gender : F, Age : 50, City : Northampton, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : consultant/doctoral student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,There are several factors working against you, some of which are covered by the previous replies. I will cover them as follows: a) you are ‘foreign’ – a Yankee in the South; b) you are a woman – the South, especially in small towns, is the last bastion of male chauvinism, and as a female, you are just assumed you don’t know what the heck you are talking about; and c) as a female, are working in a business setting. Most business workers in small town businesses are male, and the only female staff are usually clerical, who are lowly paid and assumed (by virtue of this) to be ‘dumb.’ If I sound bitter, it might be because after attaining a law degree, working as a sucessful city administration official for over 10 years, recognised in my field, etc., I finally gave up working in offices after one of my male bosses went on and one about there being ‘too many queen bees’ in the office who ‘thought they knew what they were doing.’ And government was the most liberal of areas in which a woman could work in the South! I went into consulting on my own terms, and have never looked back. I also have since left the South (far away, as you can tell).
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Name : K. Greenberg, Gender : F, Age : 50, City : Northampton, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : consultant/doctoral student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,
