כד תנא דבי אליהו צדיקים שעתיד הקדוש ברוך הוא להחיותן אינן חוזרין לעפרן שנאמר (ישעיהו ד, ג) והיה הנשאר בציון והנותר בירושלים קדוש יאמר לו כל הכתוב לחיים בירושלים מה קדוש לעולם קיים אף הם לעולם קיימין
24 R. Eleazar also said: Be always humble:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'obscure'. ');"><sup>45</sup></span> so shalt thou endure. R. Zera said: We have learned likewise. The windows of a dark house may not be opened to examine its leprosy.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If leprosy breaks out in the walls of a house and the priest, coming to examine it, (v. Lev. XIV, 36) finds the house too dark for a proper survey, the windows must not be opened to allow the light to enter, as it must be examined by its usual light. Thus its darkness protects it, since in the absence of a proper examination it cannot be pronounced unclean. Similarly, the darkness in which a man wraps himself, i.e., obscurity and humility, protects his life. ');"><sup>46</sup></span> This proves it. R. Tabi said in R. Josia's name: What is meant by, The grave; and the barren womb; and the earth that is not filled by water:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. XXX, 16. ');"><sup>47</sup></span> now, what connection has the grave with the womb? But it is to teach thee: just as the womb receives and brings forth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The child. ');"><sup>48</sup></span> so does the grave too receive and bring forth.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The dead are laid there, and will be taken out at the resurrection. ');"><sup>49</sup></span> Now, does this not furnish us with an <i>a fortiori</i> argument? If the womb, which receives in silence, yet brings forth amid great cries [of jubilation]; then the grave, which receives the dead amid cries [of grief], will much more so bring them forth amid great cries [of joy]! This refutes those who maintain that resurrection is not intimated in the Torah. [The] Tanna debe Eliyyahu [states]: The righteous, whom the Holy One, blessed be He, will resurrect, will not revert to dust,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the interval between the Messianic era and the time of the world to come; but their flesh will remain intact upon them until they live again in the future. ');"><sup>50</sup></span> for it is said, And it shall come to pass. that he that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. IV, 3. ');"><sup>51</sup></span> just as the Holy One endures for ever, so shall they endure for ever.