Editing Paradise (section)

===Rabbinic Judaism===
In modern Jewish eschatology it is believed that history will complete itself and the ultimate destination will be when all mankind returns to the Garden of Eden.<ref>{{cite web|title=End of Days|date=11 January 2000|url=http://www.aish.com/ci/a/48925077.html|publisher=Aish|access-date=1 May 2012}}</ref>

In the [[Talmud]] and the Jewish [[Kabbalah]],<ref name="Gan Eden">[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=39&letter=E Gan Eden] – JewishEncyclopedia; 02-22-2010.</ref> the scholars agree that there are two types of spiritual places called "Garden in Eden". The first is rather terrestrial, of abundant fertility and luxuriant vegetation, known as the "lower Gan Eden". The second is envisioned as being celestial, the habitation of righteous, Jewish and non-Jewish, immortal souls, known as the "higher Gan Eden". The [[rabbi]]s differentiate between ''Gan'' and Eden. Adam is said to have dwelt only in the ''Gan'', whereas Eden is said never to be witnessed by any mortal eye.<ref name="Gan Eden"/> In [[Rabbinic Judaism]], the word 'Pardes' recurs, but less often in the Second Temple context of Eden or restored Eden. A well-known reference is in the [[Pardes (legend)|Pardes story]], where the word may allude to mystic philosophy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=65&letter=P#ixzz0ZWg2S0OP|title=JewishEncyclopedia.com|access-date=2 October 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013054031/http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=65&letter=P#ixzz0ZWg2S0OP|archive-date=13 October 2011}}</ref>

The [[Zohar]] gives the word a mystical interpretation, and associates it with the four kinds of Biblical exegesis: ''peshat'' (literal meaning), ''remez'' (allusion), ''derash'' (anagogical), and ''sod'' (mystic). The initial letters of those four words then form {{lang|he|פַּרְדֵּס}} – ''[[Pardes (Jewish exegesis)|p(a)rd(e)s]]'', which was in turn felt to represent the fourfold interpretation of the [[Torah]] (in which ''sod'' – the mystical interpretation – ranks highest).