The following have no share in the world to come, but are cut off, and perish, and receive their punishment for all time for their great sin: the minim, the apiḳoresim, they that deny the belief in the Torah, they that deny the belief in resurrection of the dead and in the coming of the Redeemer, the apostates, they that lead many to sin, they that turn away from the ways of the [Jewish] community...
— Maimonides Medieval

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Mishneh Torah, Teshuvah (Repentance), iii. 6-8. Defining those excluded from the World to Come.

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c. 1177-1178

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