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Between This World and the Next: Rabbinic Visions of Purgatory

Part of our spring learning series, The Space In Between: Thresholds and Borders in Jewish Life and Thought

Monday, February 6, 2023
1:00鈥�2:30 p.m. ET
Online

With Dr. Rachel Rosenthal, adjunct assistant professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, 91快播 

Gehenom is often thought of as the Jewish version of hell, but an examination of the places it appears in the Talmud presents something more nuanced. Part purgatory, part hell, part passageway, Gehenom becomes a place for punishment and redemption. Through a close reading of the texts concerning Gehonom, we will gain a clearer understanding of what, exactly, its purpose might be, and what it might tell us about rabbinic views of what happens after we die. 

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ABOUT THE SERIES 

The Space In Between: Thresholds and Borders in Jewish Life and Thought  

We are living in an undefined time: our daily existence is no longer dominated by the pandemic, yet neither have we settled into a new normal. This sense of being in transition鈥攏either here nor there鈥攃an feel destabilizing; but is the time in between really temporary, or are we always living in between moments, identities, and phases of life?  

In this series, 91快播 scholars will delve into the idea of liminality鈥攖he time or space in between鈥攚hich we encounter often in Jewish ritual, identity, law, and life. Join us to consider what these many manifestations of 鈥渋n-between-ness” can teach us about ourselves and about Judaism, and to explore how we might find strength and meaning in an orientation not of 鈥渆ither/or鈥� but of 鈥渂oth/and.鈥� 

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