Someone brings up The afterlife and Jewish theology

Where do Jews say people go when they die?

I am not Jewish. Judaism does not have a well-developed idea of the afterlife, and it has changed numerous times depending on time and place. They have an archaic concept of She'ol which you won't find in NIV because they translate it as “grave”, which it is not. There really isn't any modern consensus on the afterlife in Judaism, so it kind of goes like this: Heaven sort of kind of exists but you, yourself, don't go there after you die. You cease to exist as an individual, and your spirit goes to be with God. Your spirit does not have its own body or consciousness.

It's important to note that, in Judaism, God is not a man. We spiritually resemble God, not physically. The Jewish conception of God isn't really a God of love and kindness, nor is He motivated by any necessarily human desires.

Why does Judaism lack a well-developed concept of the afterlife? Dunno, but they focused much more on eschatology and what was to come rather than what would happen to the individual man. They also focus more strongly on what you should do now (the mitzvot) than what would happen if you didn't. If you just go to work, then what you'd do if you got fired isn't really important, right?

These are really archaic belief systems from a culture very different than our own. They really don't make much sense to us today, so we have to accept them as they are. This question just wasn't that important to the ancient Israelites.

Snapshots:

• undelete.pullpush.io

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

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• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)