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People sometimes ask: “Does Judaism believe in hell?” Not really. Judaism does have a belief in Gehenna, a place where really bad sinners go after death to become purified of their sins.

It is the Jewish equivalent of the Christian Heaven. Gehenna developed as an idea of a place of punishment for those who had lived immoral lives. It is the Jewish equivalent of the Christian Hell.