Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
Mishpatim in the Zohar as speaking of reincarnation in this sense but in fact the Zohar is
condemning such concepts using the analogy of the soul as a Daughter of Abraham-Bat
Kohen who has united with a alien or foreign man (ish zar). The Zohar confirms that the
Eastern concept of reincarnation is connected to avodah zara. However it goes on to state that
some of the Goyim and others who believe such errors may be more holy and sincere than the
Jewish High Priest who is insincere and ignorant. This part of the Zohar is highly mystical and
speaks of spiritual states and mysteries. However when one interprets them in a literal way
great mistakes occur. The Zohar here speaks about tormented souls and new born babies
however one should not necessarily interpret this as literal babies but as referring to those who
are entering into a new spiritual state. However God foresees that they will be corrupted by the
evil side (represented by Lilith)so he takes them out of this world while they are still suckling on
their mother's breast (still connected to goodness). In the same way Luisa is referred to as the
new born in the Divine Will and she speaks of mystically bringing to birth divine lives. It would
be easy for one to misunderstand her teachings and think they referred to some kind of
reincarnation if one read her in a literalistic manner. Sadly the words of the old donkey driver
(Elijah who is connected to the mystery of Gilgal)are still misunderstood and mistaken for
those of the impure foreskin which is the teachings of Lilith on the demonic,reincarnation etc. It
was near the stone circle of Gilgal that the Israelites of Joshua's generation were circumcised
and rested at Gibeath Haaraloth (the Hill of Foreskins)before entering the Holy Land. Gilgal
from this origin was also associated with a spiritual place of rest
The great Sage Saadia Gaon writes on Reincarnation in Emunoth veDeoth:"Yet, I must say
that I have found certain people, who call themselves Jews, professing the doctrine of
metempsychosis (reincarnation) which is designated by them as the theory of “transmigration”
of souls. What they mean thereby is that the spirit of Ruben is transferred to Simon and
afterwards to Levi and after that to Judah. Many of them would go so far as to assert that the
spirit of a human being might enter into the body of a beast or that of a beast into the body of a
human being, and other such nonsense and stupidities. This in itself, however, indicates how
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