In a dream...

"In a dream, a devout disciple of the master was permitted to approach the Temple in Paradise where all the great old sages who had studied the Talmud all their lives were now spending eternity. He gazed in at them, and to his amazement, they were all sitting around tables, just as they had done on earth, studying the Talmud still! The disciple watched them passionately exclaiming and arguing and reverently fingering the text. He wondered, 'Is this really Paradise? It seems like the earth.'
...But then his thoughts were interrupted by warm laughter. 'You are mistaken. This is not Paradise. The sages are not in Paradise. Paradise is in the sages.'"