51 myths · Page 2 of 2
The earth opened beneath their father and they were left suspended on a ledge inside Gehinnom, and from there they composed the psalms of unshakeable faith.
The same heart that carries one person to Gan Eden can drag another into Gehenna. David's final lesson to Solomon made the difference plain.
At Gehinnom, two walls of angels cry Give, while souls pass through fire, snow, darkness, confession, and remembered deeds.
Two scribes write every name over a place in fire and in the garden before the soul is judged, and the verdict only decides which room you keep.
At the gates of Gehinnom, two angel bands call out a single word forever, and beyond them lie seven named compartments of fire, scorpions, and venom.
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi found the Messiah among the afflicted, changing bandages one at a time, ready to move the moment the appointed hour arrives.
When the Angel of Death knocks on the grave and demands a name, the dead person cannot answer. The ordeal that follows is the first test of what was earned.
Shabbat stops punishment in Gehinnom, leads the pious to mountains of snow, and proves that holiness reaches even the depths of judgment.
The Angel of Death stretches from one end of the world to the other, covered in eyes and fire, carrying a sword with a bitter drop that ends life.
At death an angel names each limb and mourns the acts it performed. Then a farmer, a goldsmith, and a Torah scholar face what they actually own.
A man gathering firewood in the forest was dead. He burned in Gehinnom because of a shared sin, and only his son's voice in the synagogue could end it.
A voice opens the solid ground like a lid and carries a traveler down through Tevel, the mountain of the dead, and the lip of Gehinnom.
A blackened soul runs through a graveyard hauling the wood that burns him, and only a son no one taught can pull him out of the flame.
A rich man warns his wife never to open one door in their wall, and the hand that pulls her through leads down into the burning floors of Gehinnom.
A man dies pulling a child from a river, then walks the fast, the prison, and the road to reach the chamber kept for souls struck down mid-mitzvah.
A spirit must cross a bridge no wider than a thread over Gehinnom, where the dark has weight and the ashes of sinners wait for mercy.
Two angels named for silence stand at the edges of the Jewish cosmos, one below in the pit, one above at the palace threshold.
An angel walks a trembling soul down seven descending floors of fire, where the gates lock the feet and each punishment is cut to fit the sin.
A year in the pyres burns the wicked to ash that the wind scatters, then their souls return and they rise blackened to confess the sentence.
A violin cut from leftover coffin wood, a ghost army hauling its own wagons, and spirits loosed before Shabbat to strike the careless living.
A miser dies with an empty ledger, a merchant who fed a blind man is spared, and a false-pious woman is walked through Gehinnom.
