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Gehenna
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Gehenna

Another name for hell; in the Old Testament, a valley south of Jerusalem where children were sacrificed to the Phoenician god Moloch and fires burned constantly.



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According to Christian culture, demonic possession depended on the will of a demon that owned a body without any relation to the possessed, while according to Jewish culture, and for Vital and Luria in particular, souls of the evil dead could not enter Gehinnom, so they possessed another body for vengeance.
Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism by Valente, Michaela / Renaissance Quarterly
All the charity and kindness that the nations do is reckoned as sin to them, because they only do it to display haughtiness, and whoever displays haughtiness is cast into Gehinnom.
Tzedakah and fundraising: a nineteenth-century response by Ellenson, David / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
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