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Does Conservative Judaism believe in life after death?

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  • 8 years ago
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    All levels of Judaism believe in the next life. However, no level of Judaism has official dogma regarding what happens to the soul after death. The most we have are loose theories as to what might happen. That being said, there is no heaven or hell in Judaism.

    Source(s): Jewish
  • 4 years ago

    Judaism Life After Death

  • 8 years ago

    Yes.

    To the degree that Judaism has dogma, the three base theistic movements all believe in the afterlife.

    Orthodox / Conservative / Reform.

    Source(s): Once upon a time, I worked at the headquarters of United Synagogues of America (the institution that provides the structure of the American Conservative Jewish movement) and read every book in their shipping room.
  • Kevin7
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Jews believe in an afterlife not a distinct heaven or hell

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  • 8 years ago

    I grew up a cultural conservative Jew. Yes, they believe in "olam haba" or the world to come.

  • 8 years ago

    The New Testament is where most of the talk about the kingdom of YHYH, the new life with new purified bodies is, as Yeshua spent a lot of time talking about it.

    The Jews didnt accept Yeshua as the messiah and reject his teachings, and the Catholic Church invented the concept of going to heaven or hell when you die, which isn't written in scripture.

    The best source of hell in scripture is the lake of fire that will be used to destroy satan and the evil spirits. The souls of the eternally damned will be destroyed (Hebrew scripture speaks of it going to the grave, non existence but translations often use the word hell).

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Some do not, but the Tanakh (Old Testament) has examples of resurrection, speaks of heaven, and contains hints of the afterlife

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    No they don't in the abrahamamic faiths chrsitians were the ones that made up heaven and hell

  • 8 years ago

    No. They might get my free lemonades afterwards, if they ask politely.

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