by Andrea Cosnowsky | Feb 10, 2021 | Jewish Beliefs About The Afterlife, Uncategorized
I want to talk about the performing of mitzvot (good deeds). But first – a major announcement! I am going to be migrating this blog over to a new home: http://www.Rabbicosnowsky.com later this month. (It’s not live yet – if you go to it now,...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Feb 4, 2021 | Jewish Beliefs About The Afterlife, Soulmate
The Concept of Soulmate In Genesis, it is written, “Man and woman, God created them.” In Midrash Bereshit, the Rabbis took that concept to mean that God created humans as one soul. With both male and Female attributes. God created the concept of the soulmate. When...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Jun 30, 2020 | Enoch, Jewish Beliefs About The Afterlife
The Book of Enoch is found in the later writings which were not included in the Hebrew Bible. They are found in the books known as the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha. These books were originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. This body of literature was...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Jun 23, 2020 | Hell, Jewish Beliefs About The Afterlife
Before we can even begin to answer the question – do Jews believe in Hell? We have to explore the earliest occurrences of a hell-like place in Torah. And that means we must explore the concept of Sheol. Sheol is the place where one goes when one dies. For...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Jun 19, 2020 | Jewish Beliefs About The Afterlife, Torah
The Torah (5 Books of Moses as well as the beginning of The Hebrew Scriptures – Tanakh or Old Testament) is strangely vague on the topic of the Afterlife. In my former post, http://rabbicosnowsky.com/afterlife/what-happens-after-death/ I mentioned that Abraham...
by Andrea Cosnowsky | Jun 16, 2020 | Afterlife, Jewish Beliefs About The Afterlife
Every religion has a narrative about what happens to us after we die. Everyone questions their own mortality and speculates about what comes next. The truth is, we don’t know. We can only speculate. But, because alone we get to ponder what happens to us after we...
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