[cloudmountain]

As soon as the boy recited the appropriate prayers, his father’s soul was relieved of its harsh punishments.
Where was his father's soul while receiving its harsh punishments? Just curious if his soul was still in his body or had gone ... where to receive "harsh punishments"? He hadn't deserved Gehinom

Rabbi Naftali Brawer:
There is a key argument in the Talmud regarding the length of sentence in Gehinom for sinners and the widely accepted view is that with rare exception the longest sentence does not exceed twelve months. In this sense Gehinom is more like purgatory than eternal damnation.
Source: The Jewish Chronicle Online, August 25, 2011

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PURGATORY

[jjotto]

Judaism is not just Christianity without the Messiah, it is a completely different religion with its own assumptions and conceptualizations.

[boatbums]

Uh, no, NOT “Purgatory”. If you read the link for the Jewish “prayer” for that deceased man, you would have seen that the sins for which he was given this terrible “burden” of carrying wood for his own burning were what Catholicism would call “mortal” sins. Catholics don’t believe anyone with mortal sins on their souls even go to Purgatory.