There are fleeting references to Heaven and Hell in the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, but no explicit mention of immortal soul. There are descriptions of a dark pit called Sheol into which the rightous and wicked alikje descend to wit upon the will of God, but it is not a place of devils and torment. It is an all consuming darkness, a place of forgetfulness darkness silence and sleep. In contrast heaven is the abode of God alone.