Sanhedrin 110b

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Topic

Who has a share in עולם הבא: the דור המדבר, the עשרת השבטים, and young children

Overview

The amud opens by finishing the story of קרח's group, who admit from inside גיהנם that משה and his תורה are true. Next comes the משנה's line that the דור המדבר has no share in עולם הבא. A ברייתא shows this is רבי עקיבא's view. רבי אליעזר and רבי שמעון בן מנסיא say they do have a share, and רבי יהושע בן קרחה reads רבי אליעזר's proof פסוק as being about later righteous people. A new משנה argues over whether the עשרת השבטים will return, and a ברייתא extends the argument to whether they have a share in עולם הבא. Both times רבי יוחנן says רבי עקיבא 'left his kindness.' The גמרא then shows that kindness: רבי עקיבא holds that young children of wicked Jews do come to עולם הבא, against רבן גמליאל. The amud ends with several views on the age from which a child has a share: from conception, from birth, from מילה, from when he speaks, or from when he says אמן.

Opening lines

The steps (27)

1. StatementThe Arab tells what קרח's group cries out every thirty days
2. StatementQuoting the משנה about the generation of the wilderness
3. Statementרבי עקיבא proves from two verses that they have no share
4. Statementרבי אליעזר says they do come to עולם הבא
5. Resolutionרבי אליעזר explains the oath: sworn in anger, then taken back
6. Rejectionרבי יהושע בן קרחה: 'Gather My pious ones' is about later generations
7. StatementThe covenant-makers are those who gave up their lives for ה׳
8. Statementרבי שמעון בן מנסיא: The Desert Generation Does Come to the World-to-Come
9. Rejectionרבי יוחנן: רבי עקיבא Was Too Harsh on the Desert Generation
10. Statementמשנה: רבי עקיבא Says the Ten Tribes Will Not Return
11. Statementמשנה: רבי אליעזר Says Light Will Come to the Ten Tribes
12. Statementברייתא: רבי עקיבא Says the Ten Tribes Have No Share in the World-to-Come
13. Statementרבי שמעון: It Depends on Their Deeds
14. Statementרבי: The Ten Tribes Will Come to the World-to-Come
15. Rejectionרבי יוחנן: Again, רבי עקיבא Was Too Harsh
16. QuestionWhat was רבי עקיבא's kindness?
17. Responseרבן גמליאל: children of wicked Jews do not come to the World to Come
18. Statementרבי עקיבא: these children do come to the World to Come
19. ChallengeHow does רבי עקיבא explain 'neither root nor branch'?
20. ResolutionRoot and branch mean מצוות, or soul and body
21. StatementEveryone agrees about children of wicked non-Jews
22. QuestionFrom what age does a child get a share in the World to Come?
23. ProofThe פסוקים behind each view
24. Statementרבינא: From the moment the child is conceived
25. Statementרבי נחמן בר יצחק: From the moment the child has a ברית מילה
26. Statementרבי מאיר: From when the child says אמן
27. ProofReading the פסוק as 'that says אמן'