SCHOLAR OF AFTERLIFE MYTHOLOGY

 Selections from Jewish Views of the Afterlife

AFTERLIFE IN MODERN JUDAISM

"Judaism celebrates life and the living .  It dwells on life here rather than on the hereafter as other religious faiths do. Life is precious, the here and the now."
[Jean Herschaft, "Patient Should Not Be Told of Terminal Illness: Rabbi," The Jewish Post and Opinion (New York), 13 March 1981, p. 12.]

"...it is certainly true that Judaism gives us no details about what happens after death".
[Dennis Prager, "Life would be cruel if Judaism made no religious room for 'afterlife'"  Jewish Exponent , October 22, 1989, p. 35ff.]

Dead is dead - " what lives on are the children and a legacy of good works ."
[Rabbi Terry Bard, Director Pastoral Services, Beth Israel Hospital, quoted by Kenneth L. Woodward, "Heaven", Newsweek , (March 27, 1989) pp. 52ff.]