The Soul – Aryeh Kaplan

One of the foundations of our faith is the belief in the immortality of the soul, and in life after death.
If one believes in God’s justice, one must also believe in the immortality of the soul. How can we otherwise reconcile the fact that many righteous individuals suffer in this life?
Just as the unborn child has many endowments which are of no use to it in the womb, but demonstrate that it will be born into a world where they will be used, so does a human being have many endowments which are of little value in this life, which indicate that man will be reborn into a higher dimension after death.