"Only after [my father's] passing did something unexpected happen. Since becoming much more observant and taking on the responsibility of saying #Kaddish every day, I’ve begun to sense a relationship with him that feels more real, more intimate, and more meaningful than anything we shared while he was alive. Feeling that connection grow through an act meant to elevate him led me to ask the question: Why be elevated at all? If he lived a life of doing good, shouldn’t he already be where he needs to be? Where, quite frankly, he deserves to be? The short answer, it turns out, is not exactly.

What I’ve learned is that in #Judaism, the soul does not simply “arrive” at a station marked Olam Ha’Bah and stop there.

“#Tzaddikim ein lahem menuchah lo ba’olam hazeh v’lo ba’olam haba”—“The righteous have no rest, not in this world nor in the next.” (#Berachos 64a)

The #Ramban (Shaar HaGemul) and the #Zohar (II:150b) echo this idea..."

https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/386014/kaddish-and-the-relationship-i-never-expected/