Questions after death- A Question of Faith

 שאלות אחרי המוות- שאלה של אמונה

We find (Shabbat 31.a):

Rava said, 'At the hour that man is led in for Judgment  he is asked, "Did you deal faithfully in business [i.e., with integrity], did you fix times for learning Torah, did you engage in procreation, did you hope for salvation, did you engage in the dialectics of wisdom, did you understand one thing from inside another.  Yet even if so [i.e., has done the above], 'is the fear of the Lord his treasure?,' if it is well: if not, [it is] not [well].

אָמַר (רב) [רָבָא], בְּשָׁעָה שֶׁמַּכְנִיסִין אָדָם לַדִּין, (אומר) [אוֹמְרִים] לוֹ, נָשָׂאתָ וְנָתַתָּ בֶּאֱמוּנָה? קָבַעְתָּ עִתִּים לַתּוֹרָה? עָסַקְתָּ בִּפְרִיָּה וּרְבִיָּה? צִפִּיתָ לִישׁוּעָה? פִּלְפַּלְתָּ בְּחָכְמָה? הֵבַנְתָּ דָּבָר מִתּוֹךְ דָּבָר? וַאֲפִילוּ הַכִי, אִי - "יִרְאַת יהוה הִיא אוֹצָרוֹ?", אֵין, אִי לָא – לָא.

At the hour that man is led in for Judgment

בְּשָׁעָה שֶׁמַּכְנִיסִין אָדָם לַדִּין

2916=18 (final letters)

Did you deal faithfully in business? did you fix times for learning Torah? did you engage in procreation? did you hope for salvation? did you engage in the dialectics of wisdom did you understand one thing from inside another?  Is the fear of the Lord his treasure?

נָשָׂאתָ וְנָתַתָּ בֶּאֱמוּנָה? קָבַעְתָּ עִתִּים לַתּוֹרָה? עָסַקְתָּ בִּפְרִיָּה וּרְבִיָּה? צִפִּיתָ לִישׁוּעָה? פִּלְפַּלְתָּ בְּחָכְמָה הֵבַנְתָּ דָּבָר מִתּוֹךְ דָּבָר? יִרְאַת יהוה הִיא אוֹצָרוֹ?

9621=18 (final letters)

At the end of the day our entire existence,

our Life and our Death

is simply a question of faith in the Name of Hai 

 חי Hai- 

18  

!