SCHOLAR OF AFTERLIFE MYTHOLOGY

 Selections from Jewish Views of the Afterlife

AFTERLIFE IN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
MAIMONIDES ON OLAM HABA

As to the blissful state of the soul in the OLAM HABA [the World to Come] , there is no way on earth in which we can comprehend or know it.  For in this earthly existence we only have knowledge of physical pleasure...But the bliss of the life hereafter is exceedingly great...That spiritual bliss [of the World to Come] is unsearchable and beyond compare.  Mishneh Torah , Vol. I, 91a

OLAM NESHAMOT -  THE WORLD OF SOULS
In any case, concerning the meaning of OLAM HABA [the World to Come] , we have learned that is a world in which the body, the Sanctuary, and its vessels will be present; it is not OLAM HANESHAMOT  [ the World of Souls ] in which every man receives his due immediately after death. [Nahmanides, The Gate of Reward , p. 107]