Page "Christianity and Judaism" Paragraph 67

In Judaism, Heaven is sometimes described as a place where God debates Talmudic law with the angels, and where Jews spend eternity studying the Written and Oral Torah.

Jews do not believe in " Hell " as a place of eternal torment.

Gehenna is a place or condition of purgatory where Jews spend up to twelve months purifying to get into heaven, depending on how sinful they have been, although some suggest that certain types of sinners can never be purified enough to go to heaven and rather than facing eternal torment, simply cease to exist.

Therefore, some violations like suicide would be punished by separation from the community, such as not being buried in a Jewish cemetery ( in practice, rabbis often rule suicides to be mentally incompetent and thus not responsible for their actions ).

Judaism also does not have a notion of hell as a place ruled by Satan since God's dominion is total and Satan is only one of God's angels.