Eternal Return - Judaism

Judaism

Judaism's ethical monotheism posits a creation narrative "In the beginning" and a messianic "Olam Haba," which mean Judaism has a linear, not a cyclical, view of time. But cycles in judaism - even festive cycles or weekly cycles - are represented as prospects to step spiritually higher each time they are paced. Rather than just repeating or memorizing the same every time and again, the cycles are passed with a purpose to get spiritually higher and become - in regard to God's standards - a better person. Cyclical time and return are reflected in Jewish traditions such as: The history of the Jewish people is said to be repeating events in the lives of its biblical forefathers; people’s lives in the next world, or after death, are to some extent spiritual repetitions of what they did in this world; and some kabbalists wrote that time is composed of seven cycles, which repeat every seven thousand years (a view rejected by Isaac Luria). These concepts give human choices to do good deeds and be nice in Olam HaZeh — "this world" - some of the coming of the jewish messiah's infinite weight.