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There is no word for Hell in Hebrew and no concept of it in Judaism. The closest equivalent is geh hinom (gehenna in English), which is actually a valley in Israel where human sacrifices once occurred by followers of Moloch, and later garbage was dumped there.

There was a time in the past, where early rabbis equated this valley with devine punishment, but that has mostly disappeared from Judaism.

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