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Biblical Gehinom
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It is important to note that perfectly righteous individuals throughout history (the tzaddikim), had mental perception during their physical lives of both the physical and the spiritual realms. They were aware of goings on in both Gan Eden and Gehinom, and they related this in their writings, their teachings and their conversations. For instance, the tzaddik Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev once witnessed the soul of a recently deceased tzaddik, Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib, demanding and being granted entrance into Gehinom for the purpose of redeeming sixty thousand souls and bringing them up with him to Gan Eden.

The spiritual Gehinom [Purgatory] is not the only realm in which an unrepentant soul can be temporarily afflicted with a cleansing process. There is also the "purgatory of the grave." An unrepentant Noahide soul that sinned in forbidden relations may be afflicted with suffering as it is forced to witness the decay of the body, whose physical pleasures it was so attracted to.

Both the purgatory of the grave and the fire of Gehinom are mentioned in Isaiah 66:24. The verse refers to the Messianic Era. In that era Gehinom itself will be permanently closed down, but for a particularly wicked class of sinners (identified in the Talmud as those who were terrorists), the fire of Gehinom and the decay of the grave will be preserved in their bodies as a sign foir mankind.
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Biblical Gehinom - by James7 - 06-07-2007, 01:01 AM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by rabbiyitz - 06-08-2007, 05:41 AM
Purifying a soul? - by saidjake - 09-27-2007, 06:26 AM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 06-08-2007, 07:02 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Pianohero - 09-16-2009, 09:14 AM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 08-05-2007, 06:02 PM
Re: Purifying a soul? - by Director Michael - 10-02-2007, 05:43 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by greengirl47 - 08-05-2008, 05:33 AM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 08-12-2008, 10:07 AM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 09-16-2009, 01:31 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 10-03-2010, 04:42 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by joshua - 02-01-2015, 02:30 AM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 02-03-2015, 10:41 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by alexdantas - 02-14-2015, 10:06 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 02-17-2015, 02:50 AM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by okiebennoach82 - 08-01-2007, 01:50 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 08-02-2007, 07:43 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by okiebennoach82 - 08-03-2007, 07:52 AM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Mattityahu ben Noach - 05-08-2009, 06:13 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 05-10-2009, 03:07 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Mattityahu ben Noach - 09-23-2010, 03:41 AM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Mattityahu ben Noach - 11-05-2010, 05:39 PM
RE: Biblical Gehinom - by Director Michael - 11-11-2010, 07:20 PM
Sheol - by Kochimodo - 12-08-2007, 05:21 PM
RE: Sheol - by rabbiyitz - 12-09-2007, 03:38 AM

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