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From: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: After life
Message-ID: <7386@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 16:25:51 EST
Article-I.D.: rocheste.7386
Posted: Tue Mar 19 16:25:51 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Mar-85 02:24:28 EST
References: <240@npois.UUCP> <3780022@csd2.UUCP>
Reply-To: sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher)
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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Keywords: After life
Summary: 

In article <3780022@csd2.UUCP> meth@csd2.UUCP (Asher Meth) writes:
>Back to Humanism and my original questions to Adam Reed (did you ever answer
>any of them ??) - Do you not believe in the concept of a SOUL ? and an
>AFTER-LIFE ? and a CREATOR ? and the ideas and ideals HE had in mind for
>mankind ? according to HIS interpretation ?? (This is for J. Abeles, too.
>
>        asher meth

This is the second reference to after life that I have seen recently in n.r.j .
This time it was even in capital letters!  What my parents taught me, was that
we live on only in the memory of the people who knew us.  This was also what
my hebrew school taught me though they also mentioned some other views.  
I think maimonides said that there will be no reincarnation after the messiah
comes but things will continue as they were.  This is in contrast to Judah Ha 
Levi who believes that all Jews will be reincarnated in Israel at this time.

Thus to my question:  What is the normative view of after life in Judaism?
Does it differ between conservative and orthodox?  Does it differ between
Sefardic and Ashkenazie?

Caution: All the "facts" about the Rambam and Judah Ha Levi should be viewed
with caution since they are rememberances from many years back
-David Sher
sher@rochester