Jewish Views on Immortality and Hell

[smad0142]

What do Jews believe about the immortality of the soul? Also about hell? Heaven? Purgatory(because of the passage in Maccabees)? Limbo? Also are there differing views on these issues between the Orthodox Jews and the more liberal Jews?

 

[KyivAndrew]

I suppose it would be hard for anyone to answer all these questions with justice in one post, which means the following links to short essays from a reputable Jewish Website are worth the read for answers to these questions:

myjewishlearning.com/beliefs/Theology/Afterlife_and_Messiah/Life_After_Death/Resurrection.shtml

myjewishlearning.com/beliefs/Theology/Afterlife_and_Messiah/Life_After_Death/Heaven_and_Hell.shtml

myjewishlearning.com/beliefs/Theology/Afterlife_and_Messiah/Life_After_Death/World_to_Come.shtml

myjewishlearning.com/beliefs/Theology/Afterlife_and_Messiah/Life_After_Death/Reincarnation.shtml