Paradise has two gates made of carbuncle, and sixty myriads of ministering angels guard them. According to the Chronicles of Jerahmeel, a 12th-century Hebrew chronicle compiled by Jerahmeel ben Solomon, Rabbi undefined ben Levi described exactly what happens when a righteous soul arrives.
The angels strip away the burial clothes. They dress the soul in eight garments woven from clouds of glory and place two crowns on its head: one of precious stones and pearls, the other of gold. Eight branches of myrtle are put into its hands. The angels say, "Go and eat your bread with joy." Then they lead the soul to a place surrounded by 800 species of roses and myrtles, where each person receives a canopy proportional to their merits.
Four rivers flow through Paradise. One of oil. One of balsam. One of wine. One of honey. Every canopy is overgrown with a vine of gold from which thirty pearls hang, each shining like the morning star. Sixty angels stand at the head of every righteous person, urging them to eat the honey and drink the wine that has been preserved since the six days of creation. There is no night in Paradise. The light of the righteous shines perpetually.
The souls undergo four transformations daily, one for each watch. In the first watch, the righteous become children and experience the joys of childhood. In the second, they become youths. In the third, adults. In the fourth, elders. Each stage brings its own distinct pleasures.
The Tree of Life stands at the center, overshadowing all of Paradise. It produces 500 distinct flavors, each with a different perfume. Seven clouds of glory hover above it, and the winds carry its scent to every corner of the world. Beneath it sit the scholars, studying Torah under two canopies: one of stars, one of sun and moon.
Seven compartments house the righteous. The first holds the martyrs, like Rabbi Akiva. The second holds those who drowned. The third, Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai and his students. The fifth belongs to the penitents, whose place not even a perfectly righteous person can occupy. The seventh is for the poor who studied Torah despite their poverty. And God sits in their midst, personally teaching them the law.