(Jewish Beliefs) Life after Death, Judgement and Resurrection Flashcards
What does Judaism emphasis on?
How life should be lived here and now
What do Jews think will happen to them when they die?
They believe that what happens to them is up to G-d.
What Jewish term refers to living life now?
Olam ha-ze
What is the traditional Jewish belief in resurrection?
It is widely by Orthodox Jews believed that the dead will one day come back to life in their physical bodies
What is the Messianic Age?
When the Messiah, or anointed one. It is then that Orthodox Jews believe the dead will resurrect. God will judge all humankind.
What do Reform Jews believe?
Many believe in a spiritual, rather than physical life after death. Some even reject the idea of an afterlife and believe that death is the end.
What does the belief ‘Immortality of the soul’ involve?
The soul will live on after the body dies.
What extract from Genesis 3:9 supports the concept of Immortality of the soul?
“For you were taken therefrom, for dust you are, and to dust you will return.”
What happens to those who have lived good lives and studies the Torah?
They will be able to exist in the paradise of olam ha-ba.
Where will those who have lived a very righteous life are believed to enter?
They will enter Gan Eden, a place of peace.
Where will those who have not lived good lives go?
They will go to Gahenna where souls that have sinned can repent and be cleansed.
What does Reincarnation involve?
After death, a person’s soul will be reborn in another body.
Why would a Jew reincarnate?
If they did not fulfil the mitzvot in their previous life then they are given a second life and therefore a second opportunity to do so.
