Hakol Hevel

In the beginning of Kohelt, Shlomo says "Hakol Hevel." There are different ways to interpret this. One is that everything is pointless or worthless. He says that just like nature, people come and go, but do not change anything. Another is that this our world is pointless, but the world to come is not. The life we are live is pointless and it is worthless, but Olam Haba is not. We learnt a very similar idea in history. The Egyptians believed that everything went to the afterlife and they lived their lives trying to get there. They even mummified their bodies so that they would look good in it. According to this interpretation, Olam Haba is a lot like the Egyptian's afterlife.