Sheol, Avadon, Cocktail Shachas (Appropriately of Dishonesty), Bor Sheon (the Cruel Pit), Tit ha'Yaven (the Miry Clay), Tzalmaves (Distort of Demise) and Eretz ha'Tachtit (Netherworld) - are the seven names of Gehinnom. In tractate Erubin 19a Rabbi Joshua ben Levi refers to these seven names. The Midrash on Psalms refers to these seven realms of the criminal world as Sheol, Avadon, Tzalmavet, Eretz haTakhtit, Eretz ha Neshiyah (land of Nothingness), Gehinnom and Dumah (Settle down).
Zohar Korach states:- "A build ought to not say, the same as I get to that world, then I movement ask the Emperor for tenderness and I movement repent in His manifestation,' like "for present-day is no work, nor aim, nor knowledge, nor wisdom" once the build departs from this world.
Bar, if a build needs the Religious Emperor to take him in this world and
donate him a part in the Globe to Float, he ought to industry in this world to settle on
his activities to the measure. All his accomplishments ought to be for the sake of the Religious
One, blessed be He, for once free this world to be judged in dictatorial
Pronouncement and to be punished in Gehenom, present-day is no recourse to tip off, wisdom
or understanding to be saved from that common sense.
New-found recipe of: "for present-day is no work, nor aim, nor knowledge, nor
wisdom, in Sheol." Portray are levels upon levels in Gehenom, and the smallest level
is "Sheol." An even demean level is "Avadon," and one is via the other. Whoever
descends to Sheol movement be put on trial. From present-day he can expansion in a rustle, as
it is written: "He brings down to Sheol, and brings up" (I Shmuel 2:6). Whoever
is lowered to "Avadon" never rises."
And from Zohar Vayelech:-
"We educated that the criminal in Gehenom all go up upfront strong compartments
and that present-day are various openings to Gehenom. All the openings go with to the
openings in the Private grounds of Eden. Being the criminal are taken out once picture
their punishments, they open the gates and put them al fresco. All the gates deduce
names adequate to people in the Private grounds of Eden, and each and every contact is
called by a name adequate to the contact in Gehenom. The gates in the Private grounds
of Eden are known, contact for contact.
The tolerate cubicle in Gehenom is the smallest. That cubicle is an
cubicle boss an cubicle, and is called, "A land of murkiness (Heb. efatah)"
(Iyov 10:22). At the same time as is gloom? It is as in, "Foursquare it shall be" (Shemot
28:16), which is on condition that in Aramaic. Featuring in too, efatah instrument stand in. That
Detachment is called the bottom of Sheol. Sheol is one cubicle and the
bottom is the demean cubicle. Therefore it is called the demean land of murkiness,
and Both called Avadon. Along these lines it is written, "Sheol and Avadon" (Mishlei 27:20).
Not all compartments are stand in, and not all are deep, save for this one.
And we educated that whoever descends to Avadon, that is called bottom,
never rises. That MAN is called a man who was destroyed and lost to all worlds.
And we educated that to that place are lowered people men who abhorrent saying
Amen. Such a man is punished in Gehenom for the various Amen's that were lost to
him, that he did not like, and he is lowered to the smallest cubicle,
which has no opening, and he is lost and never rises from present-day. Along these lines it is
written, "As the recommendation is consumed and vanishes in another place, so he who goes down to
Sheol shall come up no higher" (Iyov 7:9). HE ASKS, but no; it is written, "out of
the tummy of Sheol I cried and You did conclude..." (Yonah 2:3). It is very written,
"He brings down to Sheol and brings up" (I Shmuel 2:6). AND HE ANSWERS, but this
is Sheol FROM WHICH ONE ASCENDS, and present-day is the bottom FROM Where ONE DOES NOT
Load. We explained that this refers to one who repented BY Produce an effect Penance, and
present-day to one who did not.
Rabbi Yosi whispered, as for the words, "For My those swallow active two
evils; they swallow discarded Me the water supply of living waters, and swallow hewn them
out cisterns..." (Yirmeyah 2:13), "they swallow discarded Me the water supply of living
waters" is by not scarce to consecrate the Label of the Religious One, blessed be He,
with Amen. At the same time as is his punishment? It is as is written, "and swallow hewn them out
cisterns, broken cisterns," by separation to Gehenom one level once new-found until
they stretch Avadon that is called bottom. If he sanctifies the Label of the Religious
One, blessed be He, by meditating correctly on Amen, he rises, level once level,
to swallow like in the Globe to Float, that ever flows and does not close. This
is the meaning of, "for Hashem preserves the stalwart, and plentifully repays
him who acts haughtily" (Tehilim 31:24)."
Zohar Noach states:
" Rabbi Aba whispered that in Gehenom, present-day are compartments upon compartments,
seconds, thirds, and so on until seven--our friends swallow sooner than explained this
stream. Jubilant are the moral who mask themselves from the sins of the criminal
and do not quest in their paths nor spot themselves. For the same as a build who
has become mixed dies, he passes onto the Globe of Detail and goes down inside
Gehenom. Portray he descends, until he reaches the smallest cubicle.
And present-day are two compartments helpful to each other that are called Sheol and
Avadon. Whoever reaches Sheol is judged and punished present-day and is then raised to
a original, but leading, cubicle. This continues until he is complimentary from
present-day. But people who go down and stretch Avadon are never raised from present-day another time.
That is why it is called Avadon (lost), like they are lost present-day continuously."
In Zohar Pekudei it links these seven realms of Gehenna with the seven chambers of the Disease Marmalade of Satan.
" Rabbi Shimon opened the chat with the verse: "But they, elaborate Adam swallow transgressed the harmony" (Hoshea 6:7). Who movement remove add from your eyes, Adam, if the Religious One, blessed be He gave you one principle and you possibly will not maintain it, for you were enticed by the criminal things with which the evil serpent seduced you, as is written, "the serpent was craftier" (Beresheet 3:1). Along these lines you were seduced by it, and brought death to you and all your daughter. Float and see: Whoever is seduced by it, and goes down to it, he movement be lost in an summing up...Portray are a variety of aspects and grades to the Disease Aptitude, which are the Satan, the Cupid of Demise, and the Disease Aptitude. And we explained that in spite of this it is called by people names, it has seven names: the Satan, unholy, foe, a stone of stumbling, uncircumcised, evil, northern. These seven names go with to the seven grades of its chambers, all of them on the point of adulteration, as we whispered, and to the seven names prone to Gehenom, where the criminal are condemned. These are: pit (Bor), decaying (Shakhat), Dumah, grisly mud (Tit haYaven), Sheol, shadow of death (Tzalmavet), a move backward land (Eretz takhtit). These are the seven departments of Gehenom adequate to the seven names of the Disease Aptitude.
Featuring in we explained that as present-day are grades and chambers on the point of sacredness, so present-day are on the point of adulteration, all of which put up with in and sphere the world on the point of unholiness. Seven chambers, adequate to the seven names of Gehenom. All of them stand dated to censure and spot the criminal of the world who clove to them, and did not maintain in another place from them, still in this world...
These seven chambers, the seven departments of Gehenom, are called 'twelve months'. As present-day are twelve months of holy grades on the point of the Bank on, so the Extensively Separate has twelve months, to which the criminal are condemned, and their souls are sentenced to. Jubilant is the fortune of the moral who maintain their feet in this world in another place from their gates, to be saved from them in that world."
Zohar Pekudei then goes on to portrait these seven chambers or realms. The first of all is the beginning of the Yetzer Ahra (Disease Aptitude)called the 'the pit empty of something in which one meets the demonic Prince Dumah (break). This pit contains demonic snakes and scorpions that pain the ghoul. "THE Instant Booth IS DARKER THAN THE Primary Booth. IT IS CALLED 'GRAVE', Corresponding TO THE Label 'UNHOLY', Restore AS THE Primary Booth IS CALLED 'PIT' Corresponding TO THE Label 'THE SATAN'. AND THIS ONE IS CALLED 'GRAVE' IN Bring together TO THE NAME'UNHOLY'. THIS Booth HAS THREE OPENINGS." This jiffy realm is where various sexual sins are punished.
"The third cabal is dark and dire, for present-day is no light in it anything. It is darker than the first of all. It is called 'Dumah', adequate to the name hostility. Portray are four openings to this cabal, one on this point, new-found on that point, and so on...The fourth cabal is called charge. This is the grisly mud, adequate to new-found name, a stumbling stone, and all is one. It is charge, all the sins of the world, the corresponding of the sins...The fifth cabal is called 'Sheol', adequate to the name of the Disease Aptitude, uncircumcised, which we explained to be the secret of the foreskin. In this cabal present-day is one opening, and a highest in charge boss it. The authorize of this highest is to stir up accusations upon the world. This spirit is called rancor, once the name of the opening, rancor. This is thought from the verse, "and I movement put rancor involving you and the individual...". Portray is a spirit in this cabal who symbols everything. He is called criminal (Heb. shoded), and is a "assassination (Heb. shod) and annihilation" (Yeshayah 59:7)."
"The sixth cabal stands larger than the rest of the demean chambers. Portray are four openings to this chamber: one is called deficit, one menace, one shadow of deficit and the tolerate one dire. These four openings are present-day to raison d'?tre evil, and comprise everything...The seventh cabal is the cabal of the scum of wine, to share one's be suitable for,as it is written, "and he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and he was outdoor" (Bereshit 9:21). The immersed of the grapes, the bad grapes, is done hip, and it becomes foaming wine, the scum of the wine. Portray is no one who munchies of them imperfect bringing death to himself. Of this wine Eve gave her group a share, thus putting him in this cabal, as we educated that she pressed grapes and gave him to share, thus bringing death to him, and to the whole world once him.
In this cabal are the unholy souls, who be given up upon all people who rupture to this point. The defiled spirit, who descends upon people of this point, comes from hip. As for people who strayed from their way in the world and practiced prostitution where they ought to not swallow, and shunned the way of truth, the same as one cleaves to the point of the Disease Aptitude by harlotry, a spirit of adulteration comes out of this cabal to spot him and the child he begot."
These days various Jewish firm try to down guts the traditional Jewish understanding of Purgatory and Hell. Bar it is plain from the sources that still Gehenna includes the supposition of purgatory - it very contains a realm of eternal loss in fire called Avadon which equates with the Catholic understanding of Hell.
