SAYINGS OF THE FATHERS

_One of the following chapters is read on each Sabbath from the
Sabbath after Passover until the Sabbath before New Year._

All Israel (1) have a portion in the world to come, and it is said,
"And thy people shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land
(2) for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I
may be glorified" (3).

(1) This does not mean that Israel alone, to the exclusion of
other nations, will have a portion in the future world. On
the future world ([olam haba]), see [Chapter II], n. 21. "The
pious of all nations have a portion in the world to come"
(_Tosefta Sanhedrin_, chap. XII; Maimonides, in _Mishneh
Torah_, I, _Hilchot Teshubah_, iii, 5) sums up the Rabbinic
opinion.

(2) _I.e._, the land of everlasting life.

(3) _Sanhedrin_, X (XI), 1; Isaiah lx, 21. This passage is