!0 Miracles Trump and Jared Kushner Helped to Bring About Plus the Abraham Accords and Mistakes Made

 Nadene Goldfoot                  

Updated 1/20/21                    

Trump was the opposition to Hillary.  He was able to accomplish much for Israel, more than any other previous president. He had the guidance of Jared Kushner.   These steps were very important to Israelis.  

1.  The “recognition of Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.

2. Opening the American Embassy in Jerusalem

3.  Recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.” These were key decisions made between December 2017 and March 2019.

4. Changed US policy on Israeli communities in the West Bank,  

5. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has given Israel clear support for operations against Iran’s presence in Syria and elsewhere.

6. Numerous high-level military visits have taken place to Israel in recent months, including the visit of Centcom chief Gen. Kenneth McKenzie as well as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley and Air Force commander Gen. David Goldfein, who all came in November. And the Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir visited the US in mid-December. 

7. He also appears to see Israel as one of America’s key and reliable allies, having not mentioned many other countries positively in the letter.

8. Unprecedentedly pro-Israel policy moves, such as quitting the Iran nuclear deal                                                       

9.  U.S. decision effectively backing Israel’s building of settlements in the occupied West Bank, long awaited.   Labourers work in a construction site in the Israeli settlement of Ramat Givat Zeev in Judea-Samaria November 19, 2019. It is five kilometers northwest of Jerusalem. The town was founded in 1977 on the site of the abandoned Jordanian military camp, adjacent to the site of ancient Gibeon.  Israel won this land after war of 67 so had to wait 50 years to avoid condemnation to build needed apartments.  

10.  His peace treaty is bearing fruit with the leadership of son-in-law Jared Kushner in making peace with United Arab Emirates who may be followed up with their associates.  This comes from Trump's making friends with Saudi Arabia.    Abraham Accords have brought 4 countries to the peace table to date.                                                                           

                           Mistakes with Israel

1. Decision to stand aside as Turkey sends troops into Syria and fights Kurds allied with Washington has some Israelis wondering whether they too might eventually pay a price for his impatience with Middle East engagements. Kurds were helping to fight against ISIS.  They were friends of Israel; and our closest match of DNA.  This was a shock. 

2. Israel has had to put off annexation plans of area C, their part since the Oslo Accords, of Judea-Samaria, from pressure in Washington, etc.  "Israeli settlers in the West Bank, many of whom live in areas that Israel hopes to annex as part of the deal devised by Washington."  Between Covid 19 and the new peace arrangement with UAE, it is on the table but no one is serving it.   The pair "do not have Israel's security and settlement interests in mind. All they care about in this outline is promoting their own interests ahead of the upcoming election,” he added, appearing to refer to the U.S. presidential election, say some people needing Israel's protection there that would be provided through the annexation.   

3. Any plans involving Jerusalem's status of today; Israel's undivided capital.  This is sacrosanct to Israelis.  Never again shall it be divided or out of Israel's hands.  (G-d willing).  This would be a terrible mistake.  

None of us are perfect.  Weigh what is important to you, somebody that promises a lot and is a slick speaker or someone who is a doer, a work horse, a workaholic who gets things accomplished.  Netanyahu had to do just this; to cede territory so precious as area C , Jewish towns in Judea-Samaria or not mess with peace with Arabs. He of course chose peace.  Saving a life always comes first.   Trump has many faults; constant messaging; sending of tweets; ignorance of science; preference of votes over knowledge; Whatever your yardstick for measurement is, look at all sides.  This is going to be a hard election for both the candidates and the voters.   

Of course, Trump lost the election but it was extremely close, so close that a riot occurred two weeks ago with extremists storming Congress and entering; destroying as much as possible as they entered.  The nation is shook with such a shock to our Democracy.  Unfortunately, this impulsiveness, come about from the shock of losing, I imagine, will destroy a record of good works, especially for Israel's sake, as well as his own nation of the USA.  Trump will be remembered now, as people are shouting, the worst President on record, impeached twice.  Now the capitol is surrounded by more National Guard than has been in Afghanistan and elsewhere on this very day of inauguration of Joe Biden as president.    

Title Edit: 1/20/21

Resource:  From my previous blog; Continuous Russian Probe-

                                      

OUR CENTURY OF MIDDLE EASTERN CHANGES Since the Sykes-Picot Agreement

 Nadene Goldfoot                                         

Mark Sykes 

                           

Francois Georges-Picot

The 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement drew up artificial borders for the nation states of the Fertile Crescent after the worst war people ever   knew about, WWI when 20 million died and 20 million were wounded.  Both Arabs and Jews fought in that war with both aiding England.  This was a treaty made after a series of secret agreements were made between Britain, France and Russia with a later addition of Italy that was entered into from 1914 at the beginning of WWI to 1916.  They were looking ahead, providing for the postwar partition of the Turkish Empire (Ottoman Empire.)  This affected Palestine and Syria.  This "Treaty" consisted of an Anglo-French memorandum started on March 9, 1916, after negotiations between Sir Arthur Nicolson and later Sir Mark Sykes (for Britain) an Georges Picot (for France.)  

It provided for the complete dismemberment of Palestine, with the Upper Galilee under French control, the Hanran, a  French-protected  Arab State, Transjordan and the Negev, a British-protected Arab State, the Haifa Bay area under British control, and the remainder of central Palestine (from Nazareth to Hebron) an Anglo-French-Russian condominium. 

The Oslo Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorists.  Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” at the White House.  Hamas, terrorists of the Palestinian Arabs of today, are those living in Gaza today, the land that Jews moved completely out of in the name of peace.  They continue to fight against Israel to this day.  

           

 It was the time when the  large Kurdish tribe had created a large state in northern Iraq were demanding similar land for their self-determination in Syria and Turkey  as well.  Their Kurdistan, a mountainous region, was divided up among Turkey, Iran and Iraq.  We Jews had been living amongst them since the time of Ezra of the 5th century BCE.  Ezra was a member of the priestly family (J1 haplogroup) of Zadok, and was a scribe working for the Persian government.  Rabbis put his spiritual level on par with Moses.  He had returned to Jerusalem from Babylon as a teacher.  

The Jews living in Kurdistan spoke an Aramaic dialect spoken up to modern times, which is close to the language of the Babylonian Talmud and the speech of the Nestorian Christians in Kurdistan.  

Toward the end of the 19th century, the Jewish community was estimated to number 12,000 to 18,000.  living in many villages and towns as merchants, peddlers, and craftsmen.  During the 20th century, their number increased in Persian Kurdistan, to 12,000 to 14,000.  After 1948 when Israel was created, the great majority of Kurdish Jews from all areas emigrated to Israel, many settling in or near Jerusalem.  

The USA invaded Iraq in April 2003 and overthrew Saddam Hussein which brought on the rule of the country's Sunni minority to an end.  For the 1st time, an Arab country was headed by a Shi'ite regime.  He needed bringing down, for his people and for Israel's safety as well. 

 ISIL or ISIS originated as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda terrorism and participated in the Iraqi insurgency following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Western forces at the behest of the United States.

Shi'ite Iran, the revolution in Iraq was good news, enabling Tehran to deepen its penetration of its western neighbor, improve their leverage over its economic, military and diplomatic areas and raise their regional standing.  Now the Sunni world and the Shi'ite world became an issue as to who was the leader. 

 The 2nd Lebanon War took place in 2006 when Iran's Shi'ite proxy, Hezbollah terrorists, fired rockets and missiles into Israel for 34 days in a row.  This was a worry to the Sunni Arab states, which looked like the Shi'ites' strength was growing.  Hezbollah terrorists were now in the Syrian Civil War from 2013 fighting in Tripoli and bombing around Beirut.

Then along came ISIS, established in western Iraq who took territory on the Syrian side.  This showed their goal and grew in power because of the weakness in Baghdad and Damascus.  Their extremeness in their interpretation of the Koran and extremeness in cruelty to people didn't help their position as they thought it would.  

The Arab Spring, starting in December of 2010.  was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in response to oppressive regimes and a low standard of living, starting with protests in Tunisia.  

Obama speaking at Cairo University 

USA's problem was the Obama's administration's reliance on conciliatory diplomacy which sent their weakness across the region which also encouraged radical forces and states to step up their pace.  In September 2013, they decided not to take military action against Bashar Assad's regime in Syria AFTER they had used chemical weapons.  This was considered a watershed moment:  it violated a code of unwritten understandings and undermined America's regional standing. 

Russia took advantage of the situation and their standing in the region is now enhanced.  They are more than assertive, trying to take back a dominant role they once had.  China is also having their effect on the region.  

                                                                 

 Israel has a lot of challenges in the 21st century.  UZi Rabi, commentator back in 2015, foresaw Israel finding a common denominator with countries like the UAE that he mentioned in his 2015 article.  We in 2020 are able to witness a peace accord happening between the 2 states, uniting for their own benefits and interests, and uniting against such matters as COVID 19 and Iran. This has tabled Israel's plans to become responsible for the Jewish towns and cities in Judea and Samaria as planned located in the eastern side.  We also have peace with Egypt since March 26, 1979. For them Israel gave up the Sinai.  We had peace with the  Jordan-Israel peace treaty of October 26, 1994. Twenty-six years ago, the treaty was signed in the Wadi Arava along the border between the two countries with President Bill Clinton as the witness. It has endured because it has strategic value to both countries and the United States.We had been at war with Egypt.  We were not with the UAE, but their state is very close to iran.    Uzi also thought that there was hope for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Morocco to make peace with Israel as well.  We shall see.  Lots of events have taken place since the Sykes-Picot Agreement.  

Resource: http://www.centre-robert-schuman.org/userfiles/files/REPERES%20%E2%80%93%20module%201-1-1%20-%20explanatory%20notes%20%E2%80%93%20World%20War%20I%20casualties%20%E2%80%93%20EN.pdf

Magazine: The Jerusalem Report, 6/29/2015  The 21st century Middle East, commentary by Uzi Rabi.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt%E2%80%93Israel_peace_treaty

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/10/23/25-years-on-remembering-the-path-to-peace-for-jordan-and-israel/

Olam Haba-End of Days Doctrine: Changing the Present World by Divine Plan -ESCHATOLOGY

Nadene Goldfoot                     
                                                                         

The World to Come is not necessarily one that has never previously existed.  The view is sometimes advanced that on the last day the world, which was entirely good at creation and only corrupted by human deviations, will be restored to its pristine condition.  

Such views were common in the ancient Orient and are found in Greek literature.  These eschatological opinions cannot be classified in an orderly system according to logical laws of development.  Varied and sometimes contradictory outlooks were held successively or even simultaneously.  

A general line is nevertheless discernible in Jewish eschatology from its very beginnings in the early sections of the Bible.  Originally, such theory was an expression of popular faith in the glorious future anticipated for the nation after a period suffering.  

The great Hebrew prophets; Moses, Joshua, the Judges, Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah,  Haggai Zechariah and Malachi, introduced these ideas with special help from Ha-Shem into their own religious and moralistic teaching with their own moral coloring which transformed the naive folk beliefs.  

The popular conception of the eschatological era was of a period when the renewed people of Israel would wreak vengeance on their foes and set up a great powerful kingdom.  This victorious period was called "THE DAY OF THE LORD.  The prophets, however, added moral content and threatened catastrophe in the absence of genuine repentance.  The Day of the Lord became the  DAY OF DOOM or DOOMSDAY.  
                                                

This was so clear to Amos, one of 12 prophets. He was a herder of Tekoa, a town south of Bethlehem, who saw visions concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah (780-740 BCE) and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel, who said 2 years before the earthquake, "Hashem will roar from Zion and emit His voice from Jerusalem and the pastures of the shepherds will wither and the best of the fertile fields will dry up."  But disaster was not the only element in prophetic eschatology. 
Magnitude 8- Earthquake debris at six sites (Hazor, Deir 'Alla, Gezer, Lachish, Tell Judeideh, and 'En Haseva) is tightly confined stratigraphically to the middle of the eighth century B.C., with dating errors of ~30 years.4 So, the evidence points to a single large regional earthquake that occurred about 750 B.C. The accompanying map displays the site intensity (Modified Mercalli Intensity from archaeology or literature) and lines of equal intensity of shaking (isoseismals).
                                                     

 The final day was also envisioned as the great day when G-d would reform the world and reign over all peoples in justice.  A new heaven and earth will be created, while G-d will renew His covenant with Israel and establish His throne in Zion.  This was found in the least writings of of Isaiah.  No distinction between the present world and the world to come is known to prophetic eschatology which recognizes only this world.  

The resuscitation of the Jewish people and the land of Israel and the appearance of the king-messiah are described as events which will happen in the real world.  
                                                 

Accounts became more glowing, exaggerated, and imaginative.  Eschatology was transformed into apocalyptic beliefs like the Book of Ezekiel and the visions of Zechariah.  In the Book of Daniel (of Maccabean Period), the persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (175-163 BCE) who was turned back by Rome on his 2nd expedition against Egypt in 168 BCE, so occupied Jerusalem, plundered the Temple treasure, and endeavored to hellenize Judea by force in order to convert it into a reliable frontier province; which depressed the nation's religious groups, and the messiaic kingdom, receding from this world, took on the aspect of the kingdom beyond human reality.  

The APOCRYPHA (non-canonical Jewish literature written during the 2nd Temple period and after its destruction until 132-135 of Bar Kokhba revolt)  and the AGGADAH (Oral Law distinct from Halakhah that which does not deal with the laws on Jews in their daily activities-a sequel of Bible including stories and chronicles, sayings of the wise and moral  instructions, admonitions and consolation of the prophets.)   provide an unfailing source of information on eschatological outlooks during and after 2nd Temple times, reflecting all shades of religious opinions.  
                                               

Daniel in the Lion's Den

In his book of Daniel, a Judean exile in Babylon(597-538 BCE) , the end is seen as a sign of the advent of the Messiah.  It speaks of the agonies of the Messiah, a terrible last war, the war of Gog and Magog, ranging over Jerusalem.  A  Messiah, son of Joseph, the forerunner of the Messiah, son of David, will fall in this war.  But the forces of evil will be defeated, whereupon Elijah (800s BCE) (prophet during kings Ahab and Ahaziah) will appear and announce the advent of the Messiah and this will be the signal for the ingathering of the Diaspora.  (This has been happening already, except for those of us still in the Diaspora.)  Daniel had a miraculous experience with his friends, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah at the courts of Nebuchadnezzar, Darius the Mede, and Belshazzar.  

This biblical book is included in the Hagiographa a Greek word for holy writings; 3rd and last section of Bible (Tanakh)  Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah, Chronicles.  Daniel saw visions and prophetic scenes of the 4 Beasts representing the 4 monarchies that will dominate Israel during its long series of exiles.  He was shown the End of Days when Israel will be redeemed and the world will finally achieve the Divine goal for which it was created.  
                                                     

Singing Hallelujah in the Eurovision Contest of 1979
is the group, Milk and Honey

                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C33kO3fvjkI

   Israel 1979 Eurovision - Hallelujah + lyrics - Winning song

                             "Hallelujah" (Hebrew: הללויה‎)

A new Jerusalem will arise, and Israel's glory will be manifest to the world.  If Daniel only saw today as it is, he would think this has already happened, for Jerusalem of today is certainly a new Jerusalem.  The Diaspora, at least much of it, has returned.  Have we already reached the END OF THE WORLD?  Is more yet to come?  We just made peace with an Arab nation, and word is that all Arab nations may follow suit.  Are we in an era of PEACE, now?  Hallelujah! 

Haleluya la'olam,
haleluya yashiru kulam
bemila achat bodeda
halev male behamon toda
veholem gam hu-eze olam nifla.

Haleluya im hashir,
haleluya al yom sheme'ir,
Haleluya al a sheheyah, 
umah she'od lo hayah-haleluya

Haleluya la'olam
haleluya yashiru kulam
Vehainbalim hagdolim
yehadhedu bahamon tslilim
Veitanu hem yomru=haleluya.

Haleluya al hakol
halelu al machar ve'etmol
Haleluya utnu yad beyad
veshiru milev echad-haleluya.  

Alelulla, sing a song
Alelulla, we'll follow along
With a simple word, a.single word
We bless the sky, the tree, the bird
And we fill our heart with joy alelulla

Resource;  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Milk_and_Honey_song)
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(Milk_and_Honey_song)
https://www.icr.org/article/scientific-scriptural-impact-amos-earthquake

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The Development of Death in Judaism

Nadene Goldfoot                                                    

I'm standing at my paternal grandmother,
Zlata "Hattie" Jermulowske Goldfoot's grave in Portland, Oregon.
We leave pebbles by her tombstone.  Hebrew writing is
on the other side of her stone.    

The Torah first mentions death as "going to our fathers."  Since the Torah first talks about Adam and Eve, and such people as Abraham, this is the early Hebrew thought going back more than 3,000 years ago.  It was a very scientific outlook without any additional add-ons, because they knew this is what happened to one's fathers.  A premature death was looked upon as a terrible misfortune, such as a small child dying, as indeed it was.  A blessing pronounce over people was that they would live till a ripe old age.  Moses lived till 120, so our blessing said today is that you live till 120.  In doing a toast, we say, L'Chaim! (To Life!)  Life is the best of all possibilities.  We are here on this earth to care for all life.   Becoming a doctor is the best thing our children can become; "My son, the doctor!"  
                                                  

Jewish people cherish life.  The Torah was given to ISRAEL SO THAT "YOU SHALL LIVE" BY THE TEACHINGS, AND NOT
DIE THROUGH THEM."  Death has no virtue since THE DEAD CANNOT PRAISE THE LORD"  (Psalms 115:17)   King Solomon said, "A good name is better than precious oil;  and the day of death than the day of one's birth."  This was said about a man who died a peaceful death  following a long life blessed with good health and vitality of mind and body; a life rich in good deeds.  

Then Sheol was developed, a place the dead were at in a questionable existence. It's location was far below the earth, looked upon more as the dwelling of the wicked with later writers.   The dead were also considered to have certain psychic powers.

Sheol (/ˈʃiːoʊl/ SHEE-ohl, /-əl/; Hebrew: שְׁאוֹל‎ Šəʾōl Aramaic: ܫܝܘܠ), in the Hebrew Bible, is a place of darkness to which the dead go. Under some circumstances they are thought to be able to be contacted by the living. Sheol is also called Hades.

"While the Hebrew Bible describes Sheol as the permanent place of the dead, in the Second Temple period (roughly 500 BC – 70 AD) Sheol is considered to be the home of the dead wicked, while paradise is the home of the dead righteous until the Last Judgement (e.g. 1 Enoch 22; Luke 16:19-31). In some texts, Sheol was considered a place of punishment, meant for the wicked dead, and is equated with Gehenna in the Talmud. When the Hebrew scriptures were translated into Greek in ancient Alexandria around 200 BC, the word "Hades" (the Greek underworld) was substituted for Sheol."

Soul:  Our Nephesh, ruah, neshamah, all understand life as the animation of the body and is connected to breath.  After death there is merely a shadowy existence in the underworld (sheol)  Only in the last centuries  CE did the soul-body dualism and the concept that the soul was an independent substance joined to the body gain general credence;  the soul originates in heaven and descends to earth, joining a material body at the moment of conception or birth and losing its original perfection.  this dichotomy, fully developed in hellenistic literature, is also accepted by the Talmud where it is said that all souls exist from the creation of the world and are stored in heaven until their time comes to join the bodies destined for them.  The rabbis do not merely equate soul and body with good and evil;  it is always the soul which sins and not the body.  Maimonides and other Jewish Aristotelians assumed that only that part of the soul which man develops by his intellectual efforts is immortal;  other thinkers defined the soul in such a way as to extend immortality also to non-philosophers.  

Kabbalists generally accepted the belief in Metempsychosis (gilgul).  The desire to express one's  love for departed souls and if possible, to improve their lot in the hereafter has given rise to a large extent under non-Jewish influence to various rites, some of which such as Yizkor and Kaddish, have become permanent features of the synagogue service.  Somewhere I read that when the living are doing something worthwhile, this raises the station of where their parent is in sheol.  Our acts reflect on our parents, even in their death.                                                  

headstone of a Cohen, with the hands on top,
sign of the Cohen (descendants of Aaron, brother of Moses)

In later Hebrew thoughts on death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind,  death came to be considered a prime evil;  at the end of days, death would cease and all the dead would rise.  These developments all occurred before 70 CE.                                                 

The thoughts on Resurrection became a fundamental doctrine of Pharisaic Judaism.  Remember, there were the Pharisees and the Sadducees.  They were the Jewish political and Religious parties during the 2nd Temple period (c 580 BCE and on). At the same time, the Sadducees had absolute control over the Temple.  Their differences were somewhat like the Democrats and Republicans of today, with a lot of antagonism, but with Jews then due possibly to differences  in basic social differences. 
                                                      

Resurrection is the belief that that at the end of time, the bodies of the dead would rise from their graves.  It was a philosophy adopted by post-exilic Judaism, particularly by the Pharisees, although rejected by the Sadducees.  The Talmud teaches belief in resurrection as a fundamental of the Jewish faith, and Maimonides incorporated it into his 13 Principles of Faith, so it did not come from Moses's laws.  The denial of Resurrection was generally considered as heresy until the modern period when various Reform prayer books substituted phrases like "eternal life" for the earlier references to resurrection.  Although belief in resurrection seems to contradict belief in Immortality, the 2 views were combined in Jewish as well as  in Christian and Muslim orthodoxy.  
                                                     

Traditional Jews believe that during the Messianic Age, the temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem, the Jewish people ingathered from the far corners of the earth and the bodies of the dead will be brought back to life and reunited with their souls. It is not entirely clear whether only Jews, or all people, are expected to be resurrected at this time. 

This belief — distinct from, though connected to, the belief in the immortality of the soul — is mentioned explicitly only twice in the Hebrew Bible, in the books of Isaiah and Daniel, though hints of it are extrapolated from other biblical sources. 

  Pharisees admitted Divine predestination with man's responsibility for his deeds; life after death, the resurrection of the dead, the advent of the Messiah, and the Day of Judgement.  Not all Pharisees lived up to their high principles, and the Talmud itself lists 7 hypocritical types;  nevertheless, in reality they were far removed from the demogatory New Testament picture.   

Pharisaism was responsible for strengthening morality and introducing elasticity which enabled Judaism to withstand its subsequent tribulations.  The movement was continued in the stream of historic Judaism of which we now have 3 basic avenues to walk upon;  Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Judaism.  

The Sadducees were more scientific in their theories;  no belief in a future world, resurrection, or the immortality of the soul and also rejected the evidence given of angels and spirits.  They stuck with Moses's written law so much that they would behave severely if it was broken.  Their interpretation was more literal causing severe punishments.
                                                     

Neveh Shalom Synagogue with 10 Commandments 

 The classical liturgy reiterates faith in G-d as the "REVIVER OF THE DEAD."  Death came to the world, according to the rabbis, because of sin;  either that of Adam, from which mankind still suffers, or else personal sin.  Various rabbinic legends convey a belief that the dead carry on some connection with the living and even take an interest in their affairs.  The practice of praying for the intercession of the dead is considered by the rabbis as of early origin.                      

 The last act of the dying Jew is the recitation of the Shema. It is read from right to left, starting with the word, Shema. 

Then the body of the deceased is washed by a certain group of people prepared to do this, and the body is watched until it is placed in the earth so that no harm will come to it.  Burial is done within 24 hours (or as quickly as humanly possible) and is to be conducted with simplicity. 
 We never were to find out where Moses was buried, and that's the way he wanted it.   
You will find Jewish people involved in what's happening now with people who are living, and not with what happens to us after we die.  That's the unknown to us, and we have faith in G-d enough not to worry about it.  More so, we worry about doing the right things while living, for afterwards we are in G-d's hands.  L'Chaim!  

The world we live in is viewed as a corridor that leads to still another world.  The belief in an afterlife, in a world to come (Olam Haba) where man is judged and where his soul continues to flourish is imbedded in Jewish thought.  "All Israel have a share in the world to come."  But the worthier the individual, the greater is his loss to the living.  The more he meant to those about him;  family, friends, community, the deeper the grief and sharper the anguish.  Observances surrounding death and mourning address themselves to maintain the dignity of the deceased and to comforting the pain of the mourners.  

To accompany the dead to their final resting place is considered a high religious obligation.  Kindness performed for the dead must in the nature of the case be sincere.  The dead cannot reciprocate.  In the rabbinic view, respect for the dead is incumbent upon the living for the same reason that the rich are obliged to help the poor.  There is none so helpless as a dead man.  "He that mocketh the poor blasphemeth his Maker."  Judaism does not approve of expensive funerals.  Many a Rabbi has argued that if a family has money to spare, a better way of honoring the dead is to donate a sum of money in the name of the departed to some worthy cause.  

1. Bury within 24 hours.
2. No burial on Saturday (Shabbat).
3. Tear a place on a piece of your clothing to express grief
4. Sit (Shiva) 7 day period for father, mother, wife, husband, children, siblings; time period of no shaving or cosmetics, sex
5. Shloshim period (30 days period) no parties, marriage, shaving or haircuts, ; ends mourning for all but mother or father. 
6. Avelut (12 month period) no joyous events.  Kaddish is said daily by sons for 11 months)  
7.  If a Kohen male, under different rules:  no physical contact with dead or being in same room with corpse, of 6 feet from grave with exception for close relatives; parents, children, siblings.  
                                              

From Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur, our holiest of holidays that come in Autumn, we are aware that our names will go down in the Book of Life, life for another year.  We hope ours will be there, so we will try harder this coming year to be very good.   
Reincarnation was adopted by the Karaites in the 8th century possibly under the influence of Islamic mysticism.  The earliest in Judaism appeared in Saadiah Gaon's Emunot ve-Deot.  He refuted others' proofs.  Then along came the Kabbalists who did believe in the transmigration of souls.  The Zohar refers to the doctrine, and so does Nahmanides.  The later Kabbalah is full of the belief in the transmigration of souls.  Various sins are punished by transmigration, ie the soul  of the proud man entering the body of a bee until atonement is attained.  The heroes of the Bible and later Jewish history heroes are said to be the reincarnation of earlier heroes.  

Resource: The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
To Be a Jew-a guide to Jewish observance in Contemporary Life by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol
What Does Judaism Say About...?  Louis Jacobs
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jewish-resurrection-of-the-dead/