.]]Gehenna (or gehenom or gehinom (??????)) is the Jewish hell or purgatory. In Judaism hell is a place of purificationhttp://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=611&letter=P&search=purgatory Rabbinic Views of Purgatory and fire for the wicked, most being punished there up to a year but some for eternity.http://www.torah.org/qanda/seequanda.php?id=467 The Basics of Judaism: Messiah and the Next World In English, Jews commonly use the term "hell" in place of "gehenna." The name derived from the burning garbage dump near Jerusalem (the Hinnom gulch), metaphorically identified with the entrance to the underworld of punishment in the afterlife. Gehenna also appears in the New Testament and in early Christian writing to represent the place where evil will be destroyed. It lends its name to Islam's hell, Jahannam. In both Rabbinical Jewish and Christian writing, Gehenna as a destination of the wicked is