Halakhah for Pirkei Avot 4:17
הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, יָפָה שָׁעָה אַחַת בִּתְשׁוּבָה וּמַעֲשִׂים טוֹבִים בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה, מִכָּל חַיֵּי הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא. וְיָפָה שָׁעָה אַחַת שֶׁל קוֹרַת רוּחַ בָּעוֹלָם הַבָּא, מִכָּל חַיֵּי הָעוֹלָם הַזֶּה:
He was wont to say: Better one hour for [purposes of] repentance and good deeds in this world than all of the life in the world to come. [For at that time repentance and good deeds are of no avail to a man. For the world to come serves only for the receiving of reward for what one fulfilled in this world.] And better one hour of pleasure in the world to come than all of the life in this world.
Sefer HaMitzvot HaKatzar
And we commanded in Chazal (Avodah Zara 19a), who were precise in the box "in his commandments" and interpreted "not in the reward of his commandments." And here is a seeming miracle - the unknown that the reward of mitzvos is that he will enjoy the ziv of the Divine in heaven, which is great in pleasure in its value, which we can not surpass in the mind. And when the sages wanted to reveal to us the greatness of this pleasure, they did not find him a fixed footage, only included him in one great rule, and said (Avot PD Miz): "Beautiful one hour of contentment in the next world from all the life of this world":
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