do you beleave in judgement day?

[alishan]

beyond what is written in the bible do you personnaly as a jew beleave in judgment day, hell paradise?.

if no what do you beleave after death?

thanks

 

[Flankerl]

Afterlife: http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/judaism-dir/102615-jewish-afterlife.html
Judgement Day: http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/judaism-dir/102794-question-about-resurrection-dead.html


There you go. Those are rather frequently asked questions which cant be answered just by searching the DIR.

 

[alishan]

thanks

but here i just want the personnal point of view of jew people of the forum not what the jew books say

for exemple maybe one will say personnally i beleave that after death there is nothing even if iam jew or that afterdeath i will become an animal....

 

[Levite]

I personally do not believe in Hell (Jews are not required to believe in anything like a Hell or purgatory), and I don't believe in a Judgment Day in the sense of literally appearing before a Heavenly Court and God literally sitting in Judgment over us.

I believe in gilgulei neshamot (sometimes called gilgulei nefashot, which is reincarnation).

I went over what I believe here.

 

[alishan]

if other jew of the forum can tell us their personnal beleaf

thanks

 

[Flankerl]

I dont believe in any kind of hell.

My body will become a part of earth. But my soul... i dont know.
I like to think that i(my soul) will relive my life and learn what could have been different, which could be seen as some kind of torment. And perhaps my soul will reunite with its original source.

Or something different will happen. Who knows...

 

[punkdbass]

Yes, I do believe that God judges us as Ecc. 12:14 and Ezekiel 33:20 says, and that in the end he will judge us for our ways. I then believe that something will happen to those God judges to be righteous, and something different will happen to those deemed wicked. Whether or not this is through a cleansing process of recarnation, or a heaven and hell concept, I can not say - but I do believe in an afterlife.

I do not believe that we all just die and that's it, that there is no afterlife. For I know that God judges us, and I would find it somewhat contradicting that all of our fates would result to nothing despite God judging some of us as good and some of us as bad - for what would be the purpose then of his judgment?

 

[eliehass]

I don't believe in hell. I believe that when we die, our souls become close to G-D. One need not be jewish for this to occur. If needed, I believe the soul may return to the earth in a body to correct some wrongs.