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  1. Silva
    Are you?
  2. Silva
    It decided to teleport somewhere more logical.
  3. Silva
    Yes, you did win in the past. You too!
  4. Silva
    5ft 6 inches isn't short! I'm not that tall and I reach the average height for women in the US! I will defend my, admittedly not that tall, height!
  5. Silva
    No longer.
  6. Silva
    The bribe failed.
  7. Silva
    He was taken to a superior who didn't like waffles or approve of their use as currency.
  8. Silva
    A spike was very much offended by that statement.
  9. Silva
    We all end up back here in the end...
  10. Silva
    "We continue," Silva said.
  11. Silva
    We won't know until it lasts forever, will we?
  12. Silva
    Then he ran out of Strength.
  13. Silva
    But the ancient beast forgot to invite guests.
  14. Silva
    Well, yeah, like @aeromancer said, the Jewish belief is that Elijah (Eliyahu) has yet to return (and that he also never actually died per se, but that's another rabbit hole...). Resurrection like that is a thing. Elijah and Elisha both did it (see: Kings I and II. I don't know the chapter and verse off-hand). The seven layers are on the Gehenom (~ hell, but more like purgatory I think?) side. Seven's a number that rattles all over the place. Maybe it's on the other side too? I've never heard of it. I can only provide what I know. We have no hivemind of all Orthodox Jewry knowledge, unfortunately. Yep. Olam Habah (literally: the world to come, heaven) is a belief in Orthodoxy (not sure if it's one of the thirteen principles of faith, though). Beliefs vary greatly depending where on the spectrum you're looking. From my miniscule kaballah knowledge: Worlds before our world (check), minor gods (question mark, would definitely want to see the original Hebrew text for that one), angels (check), Sephiroth (admittedly had to look that one up, very possible), male/female sides of God (squiggly, unsure mark. Sort of. I've heard the sides before, not the gender thing. That's new, but I can see where it fits in). The whole one God thing is pretty instrumental. I'm not going to say that the translation is totally wrong outright, since we're talking kaballah and I've never seen this text in its original Hebrew. Again, kaballah is weird and riddled with easy to misunderstand things. That's a completely legitimate feeling. This is why research exists--to make sure you know what you're getting into, in both ways. Hence, your two scenarios.
  15. Silva
    They also happened to be poisonous.
  16. Silva
    *spontaneously appears* I knew there was be a reason my brain told me to open this thread! Orthodox Jew here. Full disclaimer: I'm a teenager. My knowledge on these things isn't complete and more lacking than it should be. I've never learnt kaballah, which is mysticism, since there's a thing against learning it till you're 40 for fear of misunderstanding and losing faith. Finding a kabbalist who knows stuff and is willing to share that knowledge might prove difficult because of that, but still possible. Reincarnation is very ingrained in kaballah. There is, however, a concept of a soul, a neshama, (which is part of God, sort of?) and that they cycle. I'd be hesitant to call it reincarnation, though. Gematria can be fun, if quite convoluted at times.
  17. Silva
    These were BIG watermelons.
  18. Silva
    It hadn't reached maximum potency yet.
  19. Silva
    And the Carrot of Doom.
  20. Silva
    No cabbages were found there.
  21. Silva
    So number two embarked on an epic journey to find Butt some cabbages.
  22. Silva
    It tasted nasty.
  23. Silva
    #1 was jealous of number two's turnips.
  24. Silva
    Tragically.
  25. Silva
    A squash spontaneously appeared.
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