Jewish Life After Death Essay

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To believe or not to believe that is the question. Death is something that happens to all living things. However, people on earth can never really prove or explain what happens when we die. It’s one thing that no one can be a hundred percent certain on. Even though what I said is true there are tons of religions out there that believe there is some form of life after this one. The books of Judaism give insight on the afterlife and what many Jews need to do to be considered a good Jew and experience this afterlife. Most of the knowledge on this topic is from the Pesukim throughout Tanach.
In the Judaism belief when a person dies there are three rituals that must be performed. These three things are that they have to wear a tachrichim, put in an Aron and they have to go through tahara. Once these rituals are …show more content…

Many of people see and think that the Gehnom is a place of bad things and for evil people. However, if you think about it’s actually a great place so to speak. When you realize you do wrong you have a chance to redeem your self and head back to the Gan Edan. Its almost like when a person get his shirt ripped its almost like that rip is a sin, he then takes it to be fix and he is fine. When you look at it in this way you can then see why this can be looked at as a good thing. Even someone like Rabbi Moss believe in something like this and I think it makes really good sense. This is why when people preform good deeds it makes are souls better or cleaner in a sense. With that being said this is why every bad deed makes are soul worst. Before a person passes they have the chance to repent and to make all the bad things they left on the world go away. No soul can make it in unless they get rid of all these bad sins that they have committed. That’s why they head down to the Gehenom to fix their sins and then they are ready to be in heaven for the rest of