NATIONS COMING UP TO JERUSALEM EVERY YEAR FOR SUCCOT Tanach - Twelve Prophets - Zecharia Chapter 14 16. And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. 17. And it shall be, that whoever will not come up of all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, upon them shall be no rain. 18. And if the family of Egypt does not go up, and does not come, they will have no rain. This shall be the plague, with which the Lord will strike the nations that do not come up to observe the Feast of Booths. 19. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that come not up to observe the Feast of Booths. SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES Tanach - Twelve Prophets - Micha Chapter 4 1. But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it. 2. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for Torah shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 3. And he shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide concerning far away strong nations; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more.
Tanach - Isaiah Chapter 65:17-20 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be no more there an infant who lives a days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old’ but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. Talmud - Mas. Sanhedrin 91b - It is written, He will destroy death for ever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; whilst elsewhere it is written, For the child shall die an hundred years old . . . there shall be no more thence an infant of days! — It is no difficulty: the one refers to Jews, the other to heathens. But what business have heathens there? — [The reference is to] those of whom it is written, and strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Midrash Rabbah - Exodus XLIV:6 - Another explanation of REMEMBER ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND ISRAEL. Why does he mention the three patriarchs? R. Levi said that Moses spoke thus: ‘Lord of the Universe! Do the dead live [in the World to Come]? ' God replied: ‘Moses, hast thou become a heretic?’ But Moses answered: ‘If the dead are not brought to life in the World to Come, then Thou art fully justified in seeking to do all Thou intendest; but if they be alive, then what wilt Thou have to say to the patriarchs in the time to come when these will arise and seek from Thee fulfilment of the promise which Thou hast made them? What answer wilt Thou give them? For didst Thou not promise them that Thou wouldst increase their children as the stars of heaven, and now Thou dost seek to destroy them?’ This is why Moses said, REMEMBER ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND ISRAEL. Midrash Rabbah - Deuteronomy XI:10 - Whereupon Moses said to God: ' Master of the Universe, if Thou wilt not bring me into Eretz Israel, leave me in this world so that I may live and not die.’ God thereupon said to Moses: ' If I will not slay you in this world, how can I bring you back to life in the World to Come? Talmud - Mas. Sanhedrin 92a - 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: now, what connection has the grave with the womb? But it is to teach thee: just as the womb receives and brings forth, so does the grave too receive and bring forth. (49) Now, does this not furnish us with an a fortiori 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, (50) 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:51 just as the Holy One endures for ever, so shall they endure for ever.
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