# Goal of Judaism **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goal-of-judaism/968648 "2022-07-27T12:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goal-of-judaism/968648/3 "2022-07-27T13:07:11Z")
For what it’s worth, we’re discussing a lot of these concepts over here: > [@Judaism rewards and punishments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judaism-rewards-and-punishments/968545): > > In other thread, @Keeve states: This is not my understanding – I thought there wasn’t really an afterlife in Judaism and that virtue was basically its own reward. Can someone elaborate? @Keeve also states: Two questions – If there is an afterlife, is being Jewish is worse than not being Jewish, because you have more responsibilities in order to get in? It seems like you would be better, Pascal’s wager-wise, being an atheist than a Jew, if the actual God is the Jewish one. Second, are you… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goal-of-judaism/968648)._