Is there an afterlife in the jewish religion?

Answer 1

Yes they believe in the Hebrew scriptures Psalms 37:9,10,11
they believe that wicked people will be destroyed and righteous will live forever on the earth.
The grave is hell

Answer 2

Jews don't have any fixed beliefs in the afterlife - as another poster mentioned, Judaism is much more focused on this life. In fact, there are a number of contradictory beliefs about what happens after death.

One is that there is an afterlife, and our existence there depends on the balance of our good deeds and bad deeds in this life. However there is no conception of "hell", just varying levels of heaven.

Another view teaches that there is a "world to come", olam ha-ba, which will be brought when the Messiah comes. In this age, everyone will be physically resurrected. What happens then isn't clear.

Answer 3

answer: there are various perspectives by using fact the afterlife isn't defined in Judaism. maximum Jews do no longer concentration on the afterlife, they enable G-d subject approximately that. Jews concentration on the right here-and-now: conserving G-d's commandments, analyzing Torah, looking after others and assisting to repair the international. some Jews have faith that as quickly as somebody dies and that they are righteous, they pass to connect G-d at latest. in the event that they are actually not righteous they spend about a minutes far off from G-d. some Jews have faith that we enter a snooze-like state until the Messiah/Messianic age and then connect interior the hot international to return. some Jews have faith in reincarnation until the Messiah/Messianic age or until one will become righteous adequate to connect G-d.

Answer 4

Depends on the sect.

Kabbalah teaches that at the end of times, the tzit-tzum, the shattering of the divine light that was the creation of the universe, will be repaired, all will return to that which is Worshiped, and then that will return to the Ayin (the nothingness so utterly nothing that to say, 'it is nothing' is to define it and make it no longer Ayin).

Not sure if you would like to call this an afterlife or not, but... there ya' have it. We all get back to G-d.

Answer 5

Belief in an afterlife is a fundamental belief in Judaism.

The Torah assumes this and the Talmud discusses the experience of several who made the trip there and back.

Life never ends. The soul goes higher and higher until it is liberated from the body and goes back to its source(God).

Answer 6

Judaism focuses more on the here and now--how we treat one another and honor God, our agreements, and promises--but Jews nonetheless have a wide variety of afterlife beliefs.

A Mishnah passage reads, "This world is like a lobby before the Olam Ha-Ba (the world to come). Prepare yourself in the lobby so that you may enter the banquet hall."

http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/jewish-afterlife-beliefs.htm
http://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm
http://www.religionfacts.com/judaism/beliefs/afterlife.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_eschatology

Answer 7

In Jesus times their existed two different factions one believed in the afterlife Pharisees. And a group who didn't Saducees. It is very plausible that these beliefs continue.

Answer 8

Please don't listen to those answers that say "no" in any kind of way, because that's bs.

Judaism does believe in a "world to come" that we go to if we complete our mission in this world/life, which was assigned to each one (different mission for every person) of us before we came to this world/life.

If one does not fulfil his mission, his sould is reincarnated and then gets another chance at it.

Before someone reaches the "world to come", or a form of heaven, he must serve his time in Gehinom, our form of hell, even if he was good during his life, to clean himself of the "stink" of the sins that surrounded him while he was in the world (kinda like a shower).

Answer 9

there is no *dogma* about the afterlife in judaism, but most jews do believe in one.

Answer 10

Yes.