How exactly according to Judaism can gentiles go to heaven?

…….: How exactly according to Judaism can gentiles go to heaven?
This question is NOT for debating purposes, but rather something I’m quite curious about.

You can’t get there using Christianity/Islam, because if the Christian God/Islam is real, then Jews should follow either of them. So hmmm?

Also are Jews divided on conversion to Judaism regardless of race?

Answers and Views:

Answer by .
if you are a decent person I think you go to heaven, I think there is a waiting room and everyone gets to heaven, even hitler, so it might take longer then others(depending on what you did in your life)

I dont think there is a hell in the Jewish religion, that was brought in by the Christians and Muslims

of course it is all a load of crap, but this is what they believe

of course in christianity you can murder 1,000 people and on your death bed ask jesus for forgiveness and you have a 1 way ticket to heaven

Answer by Fireball
by being born again..

Answer by EddieJ
Judaism believes that all righteous people have a place in the world to come. Judaism does NOT focus on heaven. The focus is on living this life and repairing the world.

https://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm
https://www.aish.com/literacy/concepts/Journey_to_the_Next_World.asp

Answer by ladyki87
Have you ever though about living forever in paradise on earth. This hope is offered to all mankind. God desire that all have the hope for everlasting life on earth.

Answer by bad dove
Haven’t you heard of righteous gentiles? Google Yad Vashem. If you are a good person, your essence returns to God, its source. Jews don’t have a harp and white cloud heaven, more a state of energy.

Answer by Asher Ruth
answer: There is no hell, everyone reaches G-d.

No, there are no divisions – there is no “race” there is only the human race, there is NO Jewish ethnic group. ANYONE can convert to Judaism. You can change your religion, you can’t change your ethnic background and all ethnic groups are represented in Judaism.

For example – I know a Hispanic convert, an Indian Jewish family, Yaphet Kotto is the son of an African prince from a long line of Jews and I am converting. I am of Scots/Saxon/Indian heritage. I will be Jewish in my religion.

answer: there are many views because the afterlife isn’t described in Judaism. Most Jews don’t focus on the afterlife, they let G-d worry about that. Jews focus on the here-and-now: keeping G-d’s commandments, studying Torah, caring for others and helping to repair the world.

Some Jews believe that when someone dies and they are righteous, they go to join G-d immediately. If they aren’t righteous they spend a short time away from G-d.

Some Jews believe that we enter a sleep-like state until the Messiah/Messianic age and then join in the new world to come.

Some Jews believe in reincarnation until the Messiah/Messianic age or until one becomes righteous enough to join G-d.

Answer by Hatikvah JPA
Gentile have a share in the world to come by living a life of righteousness (7 Noahide laws). It’s a bit more difficult for Jews because we have 613 commandments to uphold.

Divided on conversion regardless of race??? I have no idea what this means.

All converts are welcome.

We are not a race and we do not discriminate by race.

From “The Multiple Identities of the Middle East,” by Bernard Lewis.
“Semite” and “Aryan” belong to the same vocabulary, and have undergone the same perversions. Both date from the beginnings of modern philology in the 18th and 19th centuries, and from the momentous discovery that languages could be classified into cognate groups or families. In 1781, a German philologist called August Ludwig Schlozer suggested the term Semitic, from Noah’s son Shem, to designate the family of languages to which Assyrian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Ethiopic belong. Similarly the term Aryan, meaning “noble” and used by the ancient inhabitants of Persia and India to describe themselves, was adopted as the name of a group of related languages including Sanskrit, Old Persian, and some others. As far back as 1861 the great German philologist Max Muller pointed out that confusing the history of languages with the history of races would falsify everything. Nevertheless, race theorists, particularly those anxious to establish their own uniqueness and superiority, eagerly seized on this new vocabulary, and misappropriated it to their own use.
The defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and the discovery of the appalling crimes that had been committed in the name of racism, brought a change of attitude and, consequently, of usage. But not completely.

* * * Few nowadays outside the lunatic fringes would use the word “Aryan” as a racial designation, but the same taboo does not apply to the equally tainted and misleading use of the word “Semite.”

Even otherwise respectable writers and journals sometimes permit themselves such pronouncements as that “the Jews and Arabs are both Semites.” If this statement has any meaning at all, it is that Hebrew and Arabic are both Semitic languages!

Answer by Shira the Ravenclaw
Judaism doesn’t share the Christian concept of heaven and hell. Jews believe that everyone who dies, Jewish or not, is brought to a sort of metaphorical anteroom, where all the departed souls essentially hang in limbo until the Jewish Messiah arrives and ushers in the Olam Ha-Ba (or, World to Come) which is when the wicked will be punished and the good rewarded. But the Jewish Messiah hasn’t arrived yet, so that part of the story is a bit unknown for Jews right now!
And no, you can convert to Judaism whatever race you are. There are Jews of every race and nationality (same with Christians and Muslims).

Answer by Sammy
Judaism is a religion/civilization that is about tikkun olam–repairing the world. Focus is on doing good in this world and then there is a place in the world to come.

Jews are not divided on conversion to Judaism regardless of race.
All people that choose to become Jews by choose are equally viewed as Jews.