As a Universalist, I believe that this teaching makes the most sense. There is a form of purification that a soul will go through if needed, but no such thing as eternal damnation. Thank you, Rabbi!!

Very enlightening. Thanks Rabbi.

He is inaccurate. Some rabbis teach that Gehena is permanent for those who have lead corrupt/depraved lives. This equates to hell. What else can you call remaining in pain for eternity?

Wow. Quite enlightning.

This is Reform Judaism, believe at your own peril.

I am not Jewish but found this fascinating. The Rabbi speaks of a state of being after death in which the soul is purified. Here is my question: should one pray for the dead? Do your prayers in their behalf aid them in their cleansing? Thank you.

3:08 🤣 Thanks for the video very informative

TRUE In the Hebrew Bible, the afterlife is when the soul enters a state of quiescence that is compared to deep sleep. Rabbinical texts state that after death, the disembodied soul goes through a certain period of bliss or pain depending on its accumulated earthly instincts and after some time, say 1 year or a little more, the soul exhausts its tendencies of earthly existence and enters a psychological state of deep rest called sheol. The suffering in the "pit" that we read about in the Hebrew Bible is a reference to the immediate state that people who do evil while in the body experience when the soul exits the body after death.

Do you have any proof of that from the Torah ? Can you please share any information on that ?

something new for me.

Dear Rabbi Cohen, can you provide sources for what you are saying?

So How about the tractate gehinnom in gemara? Gehinom is a washing place for soul? Yes in one side point of view. In the other sides it's not that nice. And what about the seventh level in gehinnom? There is no everlasting punishment? Are you sure?

Isnt gehenna a place where things are burned?

All these religions saying the same thing❤❤ Jews are definitely on to something ❤thank you for this very beautiful

David talks about it in the Book of Psalms.

Yes, sounds like Catholic purgatory to me too

so like the Catholic purgatory

Weirdly enough he never mentioned what happens to the people who do bad. Do they also get the same reward from God when they die? If so, then there is no reason to do good as we will all be rewarded the same.

why the thora stopped ?

Sheol and gehonnim... It depends which rabbi right?..😊

Where are you getting all this information from about no heaven and hell? What is your source of truth?

Where in tanakh is this gehenah?

Thank you for giving me a better understanding

Is life on earth part of the refinement, if not, then what is the purpose of earth?

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Well-at least as far as far as I know, if we look to history of religion, the belief in heaven and hell was present in Israel in the days of Daniel, and in the book of Daniel it is also mentioned that not all who ressurect will meet the same fate. (Daniel 12:2) To ressurect in blisss /glory or in shame.

We will all find out one day.

"On no Hell sounds really bad, lets just say it's just cleansing instead of a punishment. If we say it enough times we can convince ourselves of it. Then we don't have to worry about Hell even though we know we're only deceiving ourselves" who does that??

I like this Rabbi's explanation. The way he unifies the ideas of heaven and hell. I've always wondered what attraction there would be in heaven for atheists. If you hate God (not that all of us "hate" God, but for the sake of argument) why would you want to spend eternity with it anyway? Most atheists would probably prefer hell. Also, C.S. Lewis' idea of hell, that if God is warmth and passion and light, then heaven would be the real fire and hell would be cold, the devil being frozen in ice so to speak -- the place of darkness outside the warmth of the feast, per se, to use Christ's own description. So as this Rabbi describes, heaven and hell are both one in Gehenna. The burning light of the presence of the infinite, where whether you love God or not, all the dirt gets refined out of you. This would be the shrugging off of the dirty garment entirely, as the Jews say the body is the garment of the soul. And then, if the soul is the Divine spark, one with the divine or the image of the divine, then once all the dirt is burned off it's only the divine that's left and you are one with God. And if God is not real, then you're not real anymore, you cease to exist after death, so I can agree with that lol. This also strangely parallels science. If your soul is your personality, and your personality is electro-chemical impulses in your brain, then once you die the energy all goes somewhere, disperses out into the universe. Matter and energy being one. The energy being symbolized in the light/fire imagery of heaven/hell/Gehenna/God. There was a lot about science that the ancient Jews got right. The creation myth of life starting in the seas foreshadowing our theory of evolution. The image of angels as wheels within wheels being fulfilled in pictures of galaxies I think. And then this. Then it's really not the ancient peoples were almost right, and now we're right, it's we're closer to being right and humanity has been telling the same stories forever, and still are. The ancient peoples had myths, we have theories. And think about how dumb we are going to look, too, to civilizations in another 1,000 years.

So when you die where did you go ?? do we wait for the resurrection and we sleeping , or we go to spiritual place??

What do Jews believe happens to the non Jew or the atheist?

My Simple question to all Rabbis , The place where God Exist or stay is called what. Is it Earth or universe,or Heaven.

Don't you guys remember when Moses told the parable of the dishwasher? It's biblical folks. They don't just create these doctrines out of thin air.

. Where did Enoch, Moses and Elijah go if there is no Heaven? You are cocntradicting your own bible!

This is a distortion of the Torah. The truth is that there are some sins that are so bad that it causes a person to be cut off from Gd (Karet) and this means they will be in Gehinom forever or for many years before being able to enter Gan Eden. But if the same person begs Gd for forgiveness before dying, then he will not be destined to Gehinom.

Rambam has a different idea. He said there will be physical resurrection of the body.

what cleanses the people in genhenom? And also, you say there is no heaven yet it is where we are allowing going? I'm confused.

In an attempt to overshadow all of the ridiculous negative commentary, thank you. That was a very nice and informative explanation.

Trust me, Gehinnom or Jahannam is the furthest thing from a dish washer

This explanation sounds a lot like the Roman Catholic concept of purgatory.

In this case "hell" sounds like Catholic purgatory. A place for Second Chances if you're not all that bad?

It sounds like the Jewish version of the Roman Catholic purgatory. I should know. I attended both an Orthodox synagogue and a Roman Catholic day school as a youth.

Great video. You summarize the Jewish belief system perfectly.

So the souls are cleansed with fire. Right?

Huh? Where is all this stated in the old testament?

Daniel 12:2

I think hell is where you feel the pain of constantly burning but i dont know only God and every body who died does

Cleansing a soul sound more sensible than burning it forever(which achieves nothing), though obviously some sins are so bad the perpetrator should stay there forever.

What he doesn't say is that,in Jehanam there is a group of people to suffer forever ie those who believe in one God and still practice magic and those who associate Godliness; worship God, plus some other creation or worship a creation instead of God, anybody including jews who practice magic shall receive everlasting hell alongside with those who associate, partner God with Creations in worship.

Do good ??? What?? I can live the way I want and then get cleansed in gehanum and then go to heaven again? What’s the purpose of this life then ? Isn’t all purpose being set in gehanum?? I am asking these questions sincerely, hope they get answered.

Read psalms David himself said that he l live with the Lord forever ! ( it is heaven rite ?!)

All I wanted to know is Do jews believe in afterlife? All I want is yes and no, not an explanation My Intro to religious world teacher scolded me because I asked her if jews believe in afterlife and I said I learned it from a movie and an internet All I want is a Jew guy the would tell me Yes or no Do jews believe in Afterlife?

King David and the prophets believed and if you don’t believe you remain in sin and you will be destroyed by the Lord’s consuming fire of judgement. He destroyed many of his people in the wilderness and he poured out his wrath on Zion.

Gehena is similar to the word gehanem in arabic witch means hell

Their disbelief of a Spiritual Heaven, and Hell doesn't make it untrue

Where is it in scriptures, Rabbi?

Interesting indeed! John 15:2 He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

You will come to know soon..

Then were did moses go or ilisah go

If you have to study with the Rabbi to get this. Try RABBI SKOBAC BRILLIANT. ISAIAH 53. Who is Isaiah referring too? Is IT ISRAEL? IS the messiah man ?

May HaShem continue to bless you ‘ ✡️✡️✡️✡️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

My Grandfather was seeing the Angels when he was dying and the Angels of Hell took him and showed him the whole Hell and Christians and Jews and Non-Muslims are gathered in there like a Campfire and after that they tortured him until he died... and then he woke up in Jannah meeting Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and the Angels...

the rabbi has to be very careful as gehinnom is what the rabbi says on one hand, however, the idea of it being suffering in the way that it is described is also true. One moment of gehinnom is worse that all the suffering imaginable in this world, so this should not be trivialised, but yes it is a stepping stone to the ultimate please which is eternal connection with God which is so great that it is worth going through a million years in hell for even one moment!

So we don' t need to lead a Godly life now, or even believe in God, because there is no punishment, just a cleansing?

Buddhist descriptions of hell predate Christianity (and likely Judaism) and are the most explicit you will find in any religious teachings.

Please use scripture to back this idea up?!!!!

religion has the same relevance as collecting pokemon to me

so you not believing in heaven or hell

so heaven is not a place (like in christianity) according to judaism ?

Baruch HaShem 🙏🏽✡️🌈

There are different Jewish groups and different doctrines, including those that don’t follow the Oral Law.

Where is your Jewish sources ?! Or are you just citing your own opinions!!

The Prophets do. Isaiah, Daniel.

Jews about religion is the same as lawyers about ethics.

Nobody signed up for this.

Unsaved don't have immortal souls, but they are raised and judged, and only burned up in lake of fire. Remember God did not let Adam and Eve eat of tree of life and become immortal.

If your religion doesn't teach hell is eternal damnation and suffering then its satonic. For obvious reasons.

Dear some of the issues where I have found a lot of confusion & ambiguity not only among common folks but even among rabbis & this issue I have even shared with a rabbi Josh Yuter are; after life Judgement Fate & free will hell & heaven Purpose of creation ... Let's start with death & afterlife death is a universal truth & everyone accepts it "Every soul will taste death." what happens when u die? is there an afterlife after death or do we simply vanish? Rabbis will usually give u such statements that we believe in the afterlife, hell & heaven but we shouldn't talk about it This is more a political statement from a politician than a religious scholar. Now see some references to after life , heaven & hell which I have found scattered here & there in Judaism This world is an ugly sewer place ( as per Rabbi Wallerstein)and one second of afterlife is better than 120 yrs on earth. Talmud contains scattered descriptions of the World to Come, sometimes comparing it to spiritual things such as studying Torah, other times comparing it to physical pleasures, such as sex. The Talmud embellished this idea, claiming that Gehinnom is 60 times hotter than earthly fire (Berakhot 57b). In the Mishnah, one rabbi says, "This world is like a lobby before the Olam Ha-Ba. Prepare yourself in the lobby so that you may enter the banquet hall." Some sources compare the bliss of the afterlife to the joy of sex or the warmth of a sunny day. According to one mystical view, every sin we commit creates an angel of destruction (a demon), and after we die we are punished by the very demons that we created. Some views see Gehinnom as one of severe punishment, Despite such references scattered throughout Judaism. Judaism is famously ambiguous about what happens when we die. The World to Come (olam haba) is the most ubiquitous Jewish idea related to the end of days. It appears in early rabbinic sources as the ultimate reward of the individual Jew (and possibly the righteous gentile). I strongly suspect that there is something on the subconscious level which prevents rabbis from seriously studying & talking about this subject It seems there is a collective subconscious effort to cover up this important issue & put it under the carpet. although this subject demands clear answers May be events like holocaust have made them very careful & conscious about discussing fate of millions of souls. it’s like Jews subconsciously agreeing on an official theological party line.

So ... we are just Meat, we live /die and are just to be pleased during life or to please a deity while we live if we believe? Brings a whole new meaning to ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

God

Do they only believe in profits...?

Elysium

So how do you explain all the condemnation in the Old Testament?

When that glass smashed it made me think that was a sign he's lying ....lol

Notice that this man never quoted one passage of scripture in support of his ideas. And notice he turned to legalism as a way of pleasing God. There is a Rabbi everyone should hear. He said, "Except a man be born again he shall not see the kingdom of God." [John 3:3]

How 😱Ignorance takes such toll? Isaiah 66:24 24 - And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me; for they worm shall not die, neither shall they fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. Luke 16:24(22-31) 23 - And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus is his bosom. Mark 9:43(42-50) The Scriptures(torah, prophets, old and new testament(covenant) is a Jewish(Hebrew) and Godly concept all by Jewish writers.

my friend was Jewish. he died a long time ago . i have lived my life hoping god allows us to meet again . i hope this is true .

To all who came to comment without listening. please watch till the end then right down what you think or ask.

But if the Wicked turn from his Wickedness, and do that which is Lawful and Right, he shall Live thereby. (Ezekiel 33:15 👉 If the Wicked restore the Pledge, give again that he had Rodded , walk in the Statutes of Life without Committing Iniquity, he shall surely Live, he shall not Die , saith the Lord God. Repent! Repent ! And turn from your Sins! ! HELL IS REAL !!

So where is Adolph Hitler?

Christianity is completely opposite of us. They think they come from Judaism but far from it.

rebuke

The jews of today took from mesopotamia anatolia and greece Didnt understand a word And here we are

Please stop being led and taught by man. God is your authority and only teacher! They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen and receive instruction. Jerimiah 32:33 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go. Isaiah 48:17 For his God instructs and teaches him properly. Isaiah 28:26 O God, You have taught me from my youth, And I still declare Your wondrous deeds. Psalm 71:17

Why is the symbol of judaism one of the most powerful occult symbols?

John 1:11 2:22 3 33 4 44, 6 55 ,6 66, 7: 7- 21:21. Also gene-sis 1:11 ex -it us --1:11-- Levit- icus 1:11. Numbers 1:11 dueteron-omy Josh 1:11 hello Benjamin 💚💜🥖🥛✨💛😇🎇🤫💜

Another clear indication Jew Rabbis changed their books.. In real Torah Heaven and Hell would have been mentioned time after time.. Heaven for believers and do gooders or good doers and hell for non believers and evil doers..

And we now jews Einstein newton the germans

The Sages are clear; this guy is someone you should not listen to. Yes, there are Souls who will spend short periods of time in Gehinom. But there are many who will never leave. Their Soul will stay till it’s destroyed forever. This guy (I won’t say Rabbi) is at best a Rasha, or at worst am Erev Rav. There is No Way that the Baal Shem Tov says that (@ 2:18). This guy is playing games. Listen to Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi and Yehoshua Zitron and Yaron Reuven…or Alon Anova.

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