If a Jew believes in an after life (not all Jews do - particularly the partially secular ones) the above belief is universal including the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. My religiously well educated Orthodox son-in-law believes this, as I do (I attend a Reform synagogue), and I'll ask him where the source of this belief lies. My guess that it comes from the Talmud, which includes the rabbinical commentaries on the Bible.
By the way, unless one knows what is in the Talmud, which is twenty times the length of of the Holy Scriptures, one is hardly equipped to challenge the origin or validity of most Jewish religious beliefs.
If a Jew believes in an after life (not all Jews do - particularly the partially secular ones) the above belief is universal including the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform.
It is a comfortable belief, but it violates the Tanak. I am also talking with Celtjew Libertarian about this. The Tanak clearly states that G-d and G-d alone is your savior. It states that you have no other savior. If you go to Heaven by your good works, then you are your own savior. But if G-d is your savior, you go for another reason.
Do you believe the Tanak? Does the Talmud teach differently? I have only read "Everyman's Talmud" and I don't remember if it covered this issue or not.
Shalom.