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From Hebrew העולם הבא.

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Olam Haba

  1. (Judaism) The Jewish afterlife or mythic future, usually thought to occur after the coming of the Messiah, in which the righteous are rewarded for their good deeds and the wicked punished for their evil deeds
    Synonym: world to come
    • 1997 January 11, li...@interport.net, “Lesbianism in Halakha”, in soc.culture.jewish[1] (Usenet):
      Maybe the idea is that such a person will have it "made up" to them in Olam HaBa.