Quotation for Yoma 154:13
וימד אלף ויעבירני במים מים ברכים מכאן שמותר לעבור עד ברכים וימד אלף ויעבירני מי מתנים מכאן שמותר לעבור עד מתנים מכאן ואילך וימד אלף נחל אשר לא אוכל לעבור
to walk through the water in order to go to the lecture [of the Day of Atonement] but he did not permit them to return [in the same fashion]. Abaye said to him: If so, you will put a stumbling-block in their way for the future.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They will abstain from attending the lecture on future occasions because of the discomfort involved in having to wait until the end of the Day of Atonement for their return home.');"><sup>13</sup></span>
Rashba on Niddah
There are those who explain this according to what is written in ketubot that in the future the dead will be resurrected in their clothing. This is difficult for me because the dead that Yehezkel brought back to life were obligated in mtzvot. As it says in perek Challah (Sanhedrin 92b) "My father from them" in "these are the tefillin that my father from them gave me". It appears to me that in the coming age means from the time of death [the dead will be exempt from mitzvot]. We learn that the living cannot cause the dead to violate a mitzvah, just as a parent cannot cause a child to eat something forbidden. The reason is because is says "the dead are free". Since the dead are freed from mitzvot from the time of death, in the time to come, may it come speedily in our time, we do not want to lead the person astray in the time to come.
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