I always understood that Gan Eden and Gehenom are the same place- it’s a completely spiritual place. As an analogy- take a classical music concert: if you appreciate classical music, it’s amazing, but if you don’t, it could be torture. Olam Haba is a completely spiritual life, an existence as close to possible to HKBH as could possibly be- the more we spend of our life engaged in spiritual pursuits (and learning Torah/God’s wisdom is the ultimate way to get close to Him and achieve spirituality), the more we’re able to appreciate and enjoy spirituality, then olam haba will be gan eden. The more we spend in this world engaging in physical pursuits and becoming physical beings- then we will spend the rest of our eternity in the gehenom of a spiritual existence that we can’t appreciate or relate to.
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