SCHOLAR OF AFTERLIFE MYTHOLOGY

 Selections from Jewish Views of the Afterlife

AFTERLIFE IN RABBINIC JUDAISM

OLAM HABA - POST-MORTEM OR MESSIANIC?
Not like this world will be the WORLD TO COME [Olam Haba]. In this world one has the trouble to harvest grapes and press them; but in the World to Come a person will bring a single grape in a wagon or a ship, store it in the corner of his house, and draw from it enough wine to fill it a large flagon... There will not be a grape which will not yield thirty measures of wine (Keth. 111b).

My Torah will guide you in your path in this world, it will watch over you in your sleep, at the hour of death, and when you wake in OLAM HABA [the World to Come]   (Sifre, Lev. 18:4)