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Olam ha-ba

The world to come: the life of the soul after death and the age of redemption, in Jewish thought.

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Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism

Olam ha-ba, the world to come, is the rabbinic term for the afterlife and the messianic future. Maimonides described it as the intellect’s enjoyment of the knowledge of God; the kabbalists linked it with the sefirah Binah. A saying holds that all Israel has a share in it.