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From where in the Torah do we derive the resurrection of the dead?
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Yaron Yadan 01/17/2010
From where in the Torah do we derive the resurrection of the dead?

Though the Scriptures make no explicit mention of the World to Come and the resurrection of the dead, the sages explained verses in a way which would strengthen faith in the resurrection of the dead and show that it is no invention of the sages but hinted at in the Torah. They wished this so heartily that they ruled “These are those which have no portion in the World to Come: one who says that the resurrection of the dead does not come from the Torah” (Sanhedrin 90a).
The sages brought many exegeses to show that there is a source for the resurrection of the dead from the Torah. One of them is from the book of Proverbs: “The grave, the barren womb, the earth that is not satisfied with water” (Proverbs 30:16). Rabbi Tabi said: Why did the Scriptures place the grave, which represents death and burial, near the womb, which represents sexual relations and birth? To teach, by analogy from minor to major, about the resurrection of the dead. Just as one enters the womb quietly during sexual relations and the infant exits loudly during birth, so are death and burial accompanied by loud sounds, and so surely the dead will emerge from their graves loudly. This analogy serves as an eternal answer to those who claim that the resurrection of the dead is not from the Torah.
(Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin 92a)

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