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Question
The Rabbi mentioned that very few in Jewish history were so evil that they will not have a share in the world to come. I assume these are the people who after 12 months of "purging", still didnโ€™t come up clean. If they will not be in the world to come, where would their unrepentant soul end up? Is hell forever existing?
Answer
Firstly, we use the term โ€œimprovingโ€ or โ€˜purifyingโ€ and not: โ€œpurgingโ€. Itโ€™s written that afterwards, the souls of those rare individual โ€œsuper-evilโ€, either simply cease to exist or in even rarer cases, undergo eternal punishment. Itโ€™s difficult for us to know whether this is meant to be taken literally or to serve as a deterrent for others.
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