Sheol came to be thought of as a place of waiting, where a person’s soul could either be purified and sent on to Gan Eden or sent for punishment in Gehenna. Jews understand this to mean that ...
This web exhibit was created in conjunction with the exhibit, Leonard Baskin and The Gehenna Press, 1951-1971, held by the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department ...
It is the Jewish equivalent of the Christian Heaven. Gehenna developed as an idea of a place of punishment for those who had lived immoral lives. It is the Jewish equivalent of the Christian Hell.