Be it considered in a very concrete and empirical way, or on a textual basis, the issue of death has been conceived in Judaism in the awkward paradox of both being crucial and, at the same time, receiving little attention. The theme of death discloses in any case a significant gap between a cosmic eschatology and a personal eschatology. This is precisely the focus of this paper. Drawing upon empirical and textual materials, it questions the relationship between cosmic and personal eschatology, and, in the context of Modernity, between scriptural and individualized eschatologies.