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 recited before each chapter.