KESER SHEM TOV
Anthology of the Teachings of the Baal Shem Tov
Kst 186: FAITH AND SOUL-ROOTS
The Baal Shem Tov taught:
In the response of the Maimonides, we find that a certain country once sent him a question with seventy thousand signatures on it, asking him about the belief in the resurrection of the dead, since this is not mentioned explicitly in the Torah, and arguing that the rabbinical proofs for it can be disputed.
The Maimonides did not answer them directly, but instructed his disciple, Rabbi Yoseph ibn Tibbon, to answer them. The gist of the answer was that since such doubts arose in their minds, their souls are not descendent from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but from Sodom and Gomorrah, for there are souls that come from the heaven, and there are souls that come from the earth and the planets, as so forth.
Translation and commentary by Rabbi Yehoshua Starrett.
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