Moshiach and Geulah

On one of the blog websites I saw this:

Once we finish our physical life in this Olam, in Shamayim there is no connection (bond) to family members or friends from earth. The only time a person sees a family member or a freind after death is in the Heavenly Court... The souls that were connected in the lower world have no acknowledgment of one another in the upper worlds.

Is this true? It sounds pretty lonely!

BarDaas wrote:On one of the blog websites I saw this:

Once we finish our physical life in this Olam, in Shamayim there is no connection (bond) to family members or friends from earth. The only time a person sees a family member or a freind after death is in the Heavenly Court... The souls that were connected in the lower world have no acknowledgment of one another in the upper worlds.

Is this true? It sounds pretty lonely!

Try to remember that on the internet you can post anything you want. And if you say it with enough authority and confidence you can confuse plenty of poor innocent people. Good thing you thought to check it out over here.

Basically, this quote COULD NOT BE MORE WRONG!

All Jewish neshomas are really one, referred to in Kabbalah as "Knesses Yisroel". Kabbalah and Chassidus explain that there are four worlds. In the highest world of Atzilus there is only one, all-encompassing Jewish neshoma. Only when malchus of Atzilus descends into the lower worlds of BiY"A (Briya, Yetzira, Asiyah) is there a splitting up of this one neshoma into the 600,000 neshomas that the Torah speaks of. But the source is the same: one neshoma.

When Moshiach comes there is going to be "kibbutz goliyos" (ingathering of the exiles) which means (among other things) that all the 600,000 neshomas (and the millions of neshomas that branch off from them) are brought back up to their true home in Eretz Yisrael (malchus of Atzilus) where we will all be one again. So actually it's true: you won't see a family member or a friend again BECAUSE YOU AND HIM WILL BE ONE!

Quite the opposite of lonely

My advice to you and to me and everyone reading this: less time on the internet, more time learning the secrets of Torah. B'hatzlacha.

BarDaas wrote:On one of the blog websites I saw this:

Once we finish our physical life in this Olam, in Shamayim there is no connection (bond) to family members or friends from earth. The only time a person sees a family member or a freind after death is in the Heavenly Court... The souls that were connected in the lower world have no acknowledgment of one another in the upper worlds.

Is this true? It sounds pretty lonely!

That is what I was told by the founder of the Chabad House in Pittsburgh. He said that you would not recognize anyone and would be unrecognizable because all you would do all day every day is sit in the light of G-d and give praise.

Mordechai ben Yakov wrote:That is what I was told by the founder of the Chabad House in Pittsburgh. He said that you would not recognize anyone and would be unrecognizable because all you would do all day every day is sit in the light of G-d and give praise.

Understandable in light of my response. See above.

No, souls recognize and know each other. Excluding spouses (what's the plural? spice?), which are supposedly [doesn't always work that way] two halves of one soul, the souls which aided its mission in this world are acknowledged as such i the next, as well as in later gilgulim.