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Anyone else know that the word "Gahanna" is a biblical word for hell?
I was hanging with a friend last night who pointed this out to me, so I had to go to the Google gods to confirm because I thought I was being played.
Why would a city name itself after hell? Talk about a needed rebranding effort
Well it would mean that every one of us is going to die physically, which we do, but worse than that it would mean that our immortal souls, which represent our minds and consciousnesses, would all be doomed to spend eternity in Gahanna (hell).-
By the way, the word Gahanna, which is associated with hell, is derived from a Biblical place called the Valley of Hinnom. This place was the garbage dump for the city of Yerushalyim (Jerusalem). The city’s waste was burned there and the smouldering stench of it became a symbol of hell, the place of eternal punishment. It was also in the Valley of Hinnom where pagan Baal worshippers sacrificed children. The Valley of Hinnom was also known as Tophet. Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) the navi (prophet), said that HaShem would burry the wicked of Yerushalyim in Tophet until there was no more room to burry (Yirmeyahu 19:1-14). This prophecy was of course fulfilled by the Romans upon their siege and subsequent capture of the city after Jewish revolt.
Link: http://www.cmy.on.ca/toraportions2000/vayikra/5761/vayikra5764.htm
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