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Heaven in Judaism. In Jewish cosmology, Shamayim (Hebrew: שָׁמַיִם šāmayīm, "heavens") is the dwelling place of God and other heavenly beings according to the Hebrew Bible (not to be confused with the Christian Bible). It is one of three components of the biblical cosmology. In Judaism specifically, There are two other realms ...
Firmament. An artist's depiction of the early Hebrew conception of the cosmos. The firmament (raqia), Sheol, and Tehom are depicted. In ancient near eastern cosmology, the firmament means a celestial barrier that separated the heavenly waters above from the Earth below. [1]
In the non-canonical Second Book of Enoch, Third Heaven is described as a location "between corruptibility and incorruptibility" containing the Tree of Life, "whereon the Lord rests, when he goes up into paradise." (chapter 8) Two springs in the Third Heaven, one of milk and the other of honey, along with two others of wine and oil, flow down ...
Seven heavens. In mythological or religious cosmology, the seven heavens refer to seven levels or divisions of the Heavens. The concept, also found in the ancient Mesopotamian religions, can be found in Judaism and Islam; the Christian Bible does not mention seven levels of heaven. Some of these traditions, including Jainism, also have a ...
Metatron (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֶטָטְרוֹן Meṭāṭrōn), [1][a][b][5][6] or Matatron (מַטַּטְרוֹן, Maṭṭaṭrōn), [7][8] is an angel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Metatron is mentioned three times in the Talmud, [9][1][10] in a few brief passages in the Aggadah, the Targum, [11] and in mystical Kabbalistic ...
Hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz (הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ ): "the heavens and the earth"; this is a merism, a figure of speech indicating the two stand not for "heaven" and "earth" individually but "everything"; the entire cosmos. [3] The Opening of Genesis Chapter 1 from a 1620–21 King James Bible in black letter type ...
The Heavenly host (Hebrew: צבאות ṣəḇāʾōṯ, "armies") refers to the army (or host) of Yahweh, as mentioned in both the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, as well as other Abrahamic texts. The Bible typically describes the Heavenly host as being made up of angels, and gives several descriptions of angels in military terms, such as their ...
Jewish eschatology. Jewish eschatology is the area of Jewish theology concerned with events that will happen in the end of days and related concepts. This includes the ingathering of the exiled diaspora, the coming of the Jewish Messiah, the afterlife, and the resurrection of the dead.