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Afterlife--Jewish
The Afterlife
Traditional Judaism firmly believes that death is not the
end of human
existence. However, because Judaism is primarily focused on life
here and
now rather than on the afterlife, Judaism does not have much
dogma about
the afterlife, and leaves a great deal of room for personal opinion.
It is
possible for an Orthodox Jew to believe that the souls of the
righteous dead
go to a place similar to the Christian heaven, or that they are
reincarnated
through many lifetimes, or that they simply wait until the coming
of the
messiah, when they will be resurrected. Likewise, Orthodox Jews
can
believe that the souls of the wicked are tormented by demons
of their own
creation, or that wicked souls are simply destroyed at death,
ceasing to exist.
This information found at: http://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm
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