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Originally Posted by coelacanth
I think this page is the best basic overview of what Jews think about the afterlife. |
You would be better served if you understand that there is no one perspective that can properly be called THE Jewish view of what happens, if anything, after we die. Judaism has always been more concerned with how we live here in olam ha-zeh, than in what would be called olam ha-bah. As such Judaism has never developed a systemic theology as to an afterlife.
Perhaps Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put in best when he noted that while Jews believe that death is not the end it is not a focal point in our lives because, "We Jews take our worlds one world at a time."
L'shalom,
Peter