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36: 237:כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשׁ לָהֶם חֵלֶק לָעוֹלָם הַבָּא, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (ישעיה ס) וְעַמֵּךְ כֻּלָּם צַדִּיקִים לְעוֹלָם יִירְשׁוּ אָרֶץ נֵצֶר מַטָּעַי מַעֲשֵׂה יָדַי לְהִתְפָּאֵר. וְאֵלּוּ שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם חֵלֶק לָעוֹלָם הַבָּא, הָאוֹמֵר אֵין תְּחִיַּת הַמֵּתִים מִן הַתּוֹרָה, וְאֵין תּוֹרָה מִן הַשָּׁמָיִם, וְאֶפִּיקוֹרֶס. 242:
All of the Jewish people have a share in the World-to-Come, as it is stated: “And your people also shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land forever; the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, for My name to be glorified” (Isaiah 60:21). And these the people who have no share in the
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All of Israel have a part in the World to Come. But the following have no part in the World to Come: One who says that the resurrection of the dead is not biblical, or that the Torah is not from Heaven, or the
212:כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל יֵשׁ לָהֶם חֵלֶק לָעוֹלָם הַבָּא. וְאֵילּוּ שֶׁאֵין לָהֶן חֵלֶק לָעוֹלָם הַבָּא הָאוֹמֵר אֵין תְּחִייַת הַמֵּתִים מִן הַתּוֹרָה וְאֵין תּוֹרָה מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֶפִּיקוּרוֹס. 243:
World-to-Come One who says: There is no resurrection of the dead derived from the Torah, and one who says: The Torah did not originate from Heaven, and an epikoros
662: 677: 692: 687: 444:, Maimonides has become aware of the atheistic doctrine of the philosopher by that name. He cites the source of his information as 635: 636:"Gadi Charles Weber, "Maimonides and the Epicurean Position on Providence," Review of Metaphysics 68:3 (March 2015): 545-572" 617: 410:(Yad, Teshuvah 3:8), Maimonides rules that an Epikoros is a person who denies that God communicates with humans through 100: 672: 119: 72: 79: 57: 460: 426:). Maimonides probably encountered the name of Epicurus some time between composing his commentary on the 86: 432: 327:אפיקורוס: רב ור' חנינא אמרי תרוייהו זה המבזה ת"ח רבי יוחנן ור' יהושע בן לוי אמרי זה המבזה חבירו בפני ת"ח 682: 554: 477:("sectarian"), which they viewed as referring to the Christian faith, and replaced them with the term 292: 68: 53: 445: 17: 188: 46: 400:'Wise Student' "Torah scholar") is actually a singular case of disrespecting the entire 519: 499: 383: 276: 153: 667: 456: 227: 8: 531: 468: 395: 341: 260: 165: 581: 471:, the term spread within the Jewish classical texts. Censors shunned expressions like 296: 93: 549: 473: 464: 423: 248: 337: 223: 179: 560: 510: 490: 374: 345: 144: 370: 349: 288: 656: 406: 203: 275:, but it is apparent that the term is derived from his name. Epicurus was a 358: 311: 280: 489:). The censors also replaced terms that refer to Christians with the word 419: 252: 537: 366: 284: 601: 540:', a belief that both Jews and their Christian censors abhorred. 436:. In the first source, he erroneously states that the rabbinic term 35: 486: 411: 272: 171: 198:) is a Jewish term figuratively meaning "a heretic", cited in the 427: 307: 199: 340:
both say: This is one who treats a Torah scholar with contempt.
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of the affairs of humans (i.e., one who maintains there is no
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say: This is one who treats another with contempt before a
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