Hell/Gehenna

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Explore 958 Jewish texts related to the theme of Hell/Gehenna, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Adam And The Demons

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It's easy to imagine him and Eve, heartbroken, trying to make sense of their new, harsher reality. But the stories don't stop there. Some delve into a rather…unsettling chapter of ...

Lilith Rises From The Deep

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Maybe it was just your imagination... or maybe, just maybe, it was Lilith. The Zohar, that foundational text of Kabbalah, tells us of a terrifying figure born not of dust like Adam...

Lilith, The Queen Of Zemargad

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Imagine a woman of breathtaking beauty from the head down to her navel. But below? Instead of legs, a raging inferno. According to Kabbalot in Mada'ei ha-Yahadut, her sole purpose ...

An Evil Demoness

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We know King Solomon, wise and powerful, but he was also, according to tradition, a master of summoning and controlling demons. The Testament of Solomon is practically a who's who ...

The Underworld

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Jewish tradition gives us a few different, evolving, and sometimes contradictory answers. One early picture, found in the ancient text 1 Enoch (specifically, chapters 22:1-14), dat...

When A Man Dies

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Jewish tradition has some fascinating – and sobering – ideas about that transition. It's a moment watched over, judged, and ultimately, a reckoning. Imagine this: As a person breat...

The Creation Of Gehenna

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In Jewish tradition, it’s often understood as a place of purification or punishment for the wicked. But its story is far more complex, and perhaps even surprising, than you might t...

The Prince Of Gehenna

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Jewish tradition has a concept called Gehenna, often translated as Hell, though it’s more of a purgatorial realm of purification. And guarding the gates, or at least playing a key ...

The History Of Gehenna

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Jewish tradition offers a compelling, if sometimes terrifying, answer: Gehenna. But what exactly is Gehenna? And where is it? Well, that’s where things get interesting. It's not qu...