The Rabbi shared a story saying, "Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, and enjoyed delights and rejoiced every day. And a poor man named Lazar was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's lap; and the rich man also died and was buried. In sheol he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazar in his bosom. And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazar so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.' But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazar bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'

And he said, 'Then I beg you, my father, that you send him to my father's house-- for I have five brothers--in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' But Abraham *said, 'They have Moshe and the Prophets; let them hear what they say.' But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!' But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moshe and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'"

 

This is the teaching of the Rabbi.