ABSTRACT
Traditionally Jews have believed that the world will be redeemed through the coming of the Messiah. His arrival will end the dispersion of Israel and all exiles will return to Zion from the four corners of the earth. In time the messianic age will be superseded by the Olam Ha-Ba (World to Come) where the righteous will be rewarded and the wicked punished.
Challenges are addressed regarding whether the motivation to reach the World to Come – that is, a self-interested motivation – sullies the moral worth of the deeds.
Examination is conducted of what sense can be made of an immortal afterlife, be it embodied or disembodied, personal or impersonal and its relationship to boredom. Would there be a tedium of immortality?
