How does the Jewish heaven differ from the Christian one?

Answer 1

No one can speak for all Jews, but many Jews believe that "heaven" will be here on earth. We will all be resurrected when the messiah has accomplished his mission -- peace and justice for all!

You can find many thoughts of the Jewish afterlife on this website:
http://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm#Resurrection
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Answer 2

Judaism is far more focused on the here and now. Various ideas of heaven have emerged throughout Jewish history, often from the influence of neighbouring religions, but none have truly captured the collective imagination like it did in Christianity.

There is a strong mystical tradition of reincarnation, although many Jews know little about it.

The most universal idea of afterlife in Judaism is the one that is truly observable, how we are remembered after we die. Raising children, or helping to raise and educate children, so that they love and respect you enough to remember you well, that one's memory is considered a blessing, is the goal. Prayer and ritual is one way of expressing this.

Answer 3

Jews don't have a concept of heaven. Instead, they believe that everyone, bad or good, goes to an empty wasteland. Some Jewish thinkers have tacked nicer bits of wateland on, but the outlook is generally bleak.

Then, on Judgement Day, everyone is ressurected, and the good get their reward, and the bad get their punishment. Until then, the dead wait.

Answer 4

I think there is no Jewish heaven.

Answer 5

Thers only One Heaven Sweety

Answer 6

no difference..heaven is for all who done good in their life..jews, christians and muslims all go to the same heaven

Answer 7

Judaism

While the concept of heaven (malkuth hashamaim מלכות השמים - The Kingdom of Heaven) is well-defined within the Christian and Islamic religions, the Jewish concept of the afterlife, sometimes known as "olam haba", the world to come, seems to have been disputed between various early sects such as the Sadducees, and thus never set forth in a systematic or official fashion as was done in Christianity and Islam.[citation needed] Jewish writings refer to a "new earth" as the abode of mankind following the resurrection of the dead. Judaism does, however, have a belief in Heaven, not as a future abode for "good souls", but as the "place" where God "resides".

One popular Jewish belief is that everyone goes to "hell" immediately after death to be purged of their sins. After finishing its term in this place of punishment, the soul goes on to heaven to be rewarded for all the good deeds that the bearer of the soul committed during his or her lifetime.

Christianity
Historically, Christianity has taught "heaven" as a generalized concept, a place of eternal life, in that it is a shared plane to be attained by all the pious and elect (rather than an abstract experience related to individual concepts of the ideal). The Christian Church has been divided over how people gain this eternal life. From the 16th to the late 19th century, Christendom was divided between the Roman Catholic view, the Orthodox view, the Coptic view, the Jacobite view, the Abyssinian view and Protestant views.

Roman Catholics believe that entering Purgatory after death (physical rather than ego death) cleanses one of sin (period of suffering until one's nature is perfected), which makes one acceptable to enter heaven. This is valid for venial sin only, as mortal sins can be forgiven only through the act of reconciliation and repentance while on earth.[citation needed] Some within the Anglican Church also hold to this belief, despite their separate history. However, in Oriental Orthodox Churches, it is only God who has the final say on who enters heaven. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, heaven is understood as union and communion with the Triune God (reunion of Father and Son through love). Thus, Heaven is experienced by the Orthodox both as a reality inaugurated, anticipated and present here and now in the divine-human organism of the Christ's Body, the Church, and also as something to be perfected in the future.[citation needed]

In some Protestant Christian sects, eternal life depends upon the sinner receiving God's grace (unearned and undeserved blessing stemming from God's love) through faith in Jesus' death for their sins, his resurrection as the Christ, and accepting his Lordship (authority and guidance) over their lives. In other sects the process may or may not include a physical baptism, or obligatory process of transformation or experience of spiritual rebirth.

According to the controversial website "Religioustolerance.org", "Conservative and mainline Protestant denominations tend to base their belief in heaven on the literal interpretation of certain passages of the Bible, and symbolic interpretations of others. They arrive at very different beliefs because they select different passages to read literally."[5]Generally, heaven is a "place" of perfect bliss entered into after the trials and difficulties of life if one believes in Jesus as the Son of God. Liberal Christians generally accept that the Bible, having evolved over the millenia in which it was compiled, is more spiritually significant in its metaphorical content - which far outweighs its lack of internal consistency - and believe it to be a guide to the spiritual life. They tend to remain agnostic on the existence and nature of life after death. "Skeptics, Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics, etc. generally accept that there is no afterlife. After death is personal annihilation and we live on only through our influence on others' lives while we lived.

Answer 8

Jews believe only jews can get into heaven that you have to be born into it.

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism