What are the Jewish beliefs regarding the afterlife?
Judaism is a religion concerned primarily with living your life. We don’t really focus on the afterlife and its details, we simply believe that there is an afterlife of some sorts. This goes for all variations of Judaism, even the reform movement: “The attitude of Judaism might best be summed up as ‘We really do not know, but if there is a life after this one, and a reward for what we do, then surely it will be dependent upon the kind of life we have lived – therefore, let us strive to follow God’s path for us as closely and as enthusiastically as possible, for then we will surely know all manner of rewards, especially the one of seeing a world that is a better place for our efforts’.” Source: Union for Reform Judaism http://urj.org/ask/afterlife/ ———- “Judaism has no dogma, no formal set of beliefs that one must hold to be a Jew. In Judaism, actions are far more important than beliefs, although there is c
