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Biblical Gehinom
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(02-14-2015, 10:06 PM)alexdantas Wrote: The term "cease to exist" intrigues me ...
The truth then is that a person's soul that has exhausted his chances to get the world to come, it will be effectively extinct? Poof! It will not be tormented forever in "hell" / Gehinnom? It is very important to solve it in my mind!

A Gentile's soul can come back into the world in subsequent lives to earn the reward of a place with the righteous in the future World to Come. Certainly the person's soul will do some good things in this world in every lifetime, and G-d will give that soul a reward for that. But if the soul never takes on the 7 Noahide Commandments in any lifetime before the true Messiah comes (speedily in our days), the rewards it earned will not be eternal, so it will only be rewarded for good deeds and punished for sins until (at the latest) the beginning of the future World to Come, which is the time that G-d will shut down Gehinnom and the souls of those who were always unrighteous will cease to exist. Although the souls of some especially wicked people who forced fear on whole communities, like terrorists and evil dictators, will continue to be punished for some time even after Gehinnom stops. The extra punishment of those very evil people is described at the very end of the Book of Isaiah.

(02-14-2015, 10:06 PM)alexdantas Wrote: I have another question ... If a person is an idolater, has received the inheritance of several generations of the family ... this person is very poor and intellectually limited, which is very common in countries miserable, try as we might talk to them about sacred things, and the person is not able to assimilate anything, however, this person has committed good deeds throughout their life ... is indeed possible that it inherits the World to Come (Olam Haba)? In short ... an idolater who spent his life giving thanks to strange gods, can be forgiven?

In that case, the person did not sin deliberately because he did not know - and he was not able to learn the truth - that there is only One G-d, the G-d of the Hebrew Bible, Who is perfectly unified. So this person is not judged by G-d as guilty of deliberately committing a capital sin, and he won't be punished for that. But if he doesn't ever take on his 7 Universal Commandments and leave his idolatry to believe in the One G-d Who gave the Torah through Moses, then he will not have earned a place in the future World to Come.

All of this is explained in the book, "The Divine Code" by Rabbi Moshe Weiner of Jerusalem.

(02-14-2015, 10:06 PM)alexdantas Wrote: Among poor people is very common to helping others. It is much easier to get help from a poor person than a rich person.

The solution for the rich person to overcome that difficulty is that he should look upon himself as a poor person - just like any other person, he has nothing of his own, and he and all his wealth exists only from the charity of G-d's kindness. G-d has given him (the rich person) a special mission to be G-d's emissary in the world to help those who are in need.
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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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