Traditional Judaism believes in Geihinom or Gehenna. Really bad sinners go there after death for up to 12 months to become ...

the concept of hell is not as developed in Judaism as in other traditions. However, there is a popular name for it: Gehenna. It derives from a place where children in antiquity were said to have ...

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.

The writers of the New Testament, influenced by both Greek and Jewish cultures, incorporated Hades, Gehenna, Sheol, ideas of the Abyss, and other traditions into their conceptions of the realm of ...