Afterlife

Messianism in Chabad-Lubavitch challenges Jews of all denominations to consider the limits of Jewish theology.

Jewish authorities disagree as to whether all cows go to heaven.

In Jewish sources, the ideal Jewish society will be situated in Israel and ushered in by catastrophic events.

Early Zionist thinkers envisioned, in great detail, the perfect human--and Jewish--society.

The idea that the soul is the human instrument of spirituality became more prominent over the course of Jewish history.

The Transmigrating Soul. Jewish Reincarnation. Jewish Life After Death. Jewish Afterlife and Eschatology. Jewish View on Next Life. Jewish Ideas and Beliefs

Though the survival of the soul after death is hinted at in the Hebrew Bible, it became an explicit doctrine only in the early centuries of the Common Era.

Amending prayers that mention resurrection to accord with modern sensibilities.

By the second century at the latest, belief in resurrection had entered Jewish liturgy and legal writing.