Although the Jewish scriptures give very little information about the afterlife, Jews believe that death is not the end and that all humans have a soul that will live on into the afterlife. Most Jews believe that when you die, the soul and body will separate and join again on the day of judgement, when God will judge all who lived. Those who live good lives will be rewarded with eternal life in Heaven, and those who have committed sins will be sent to a place of punishment known as Hell.
Why do Jews believe in life after death? Many Jews believe in life after death because: In the classical Jewish tradition there are teachings on life after death. Some Jews believe that reincarnation is happening all the time and that souls are reborn to continue tikkun olam. Most Orthodox Jews believe that people who follow the laws given by God will be sent to Heaven after their body dies. However, there is no exact description of Heaven in Jewish scripture.
Many think of Heaven as Gan Eden the Garden of Eden , which is a place of sunshine where people of all nations will sit and eat together when the peaceful Messianic Age comes. Others believe that Gan Eden is not necessarily a physical place but instead is a state of consciousness, or a place where the soul feels close to God. Jews who have lived a sinless life will be sent straight to Gan Eden. However, it is possible that souls could be sent to Sheol or Gehinnom or Gehenna :.
According to Nahmanides , among others, the World to Come is the era that will be ushered in by the resurrection of the dead, the world that will be enjoyed by the righteous who have merited additional life. According to Maimonides , the World to Come refers to a time even beyond the world of the resurrected. He believed that the resurrected will eventually die a second death, at which point the souls of the righteous will enjoy a spiritual, bodiless existence in the presence of God.
Still, in other sources, the World to Come refers to the world inhabited by the righteous immediately following death—i. In this view, the World to Come exists now , in some parallel universe. Indeed, the notion of heaven and hell may be the most ambiguous of all Jewish afterlife ideas. References to Gehinnom as a fiery place of judgment can be found in the apocalyptic literature of the Second Temple period.
The Talmud embellished this idea, claiming that Gehinnom is 60 times hotter than earthly fire Berakhot 57b. Many questions remain, however. If the sources that refer to the World to Come are referring to Gan Eden, then what is the world of the resurrected? And if judgment immediately follows death, then what need is there for the judgment that will follow the resurrection?
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