[Avodah] D'rabanan vs. D'oraita

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Yitzhak Grossman <celejar at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Note:  I am not stating any opinion on the issues of rationalism,
> reincarnation, theodicy, and the very validity of the application of
> the concept of normativity to beliefs.  I am merely making the point
> that at least one major pre Arizal and Besht figure maintained an
> unequivocal obligation to accept the non-rationalist view, at least on
> the question of reincarnation.
>
> Yitzhak
> --
>

FWIW I personally know several frum  Rationalists - including a very
rational frum Psychotherapist - who find re-incarnation quite rational.

Why?  Because it really explains how things can be fair and balanced over
the long run because individual life-spans seem often VERY unfair.

It would also allow for punishments fitting crime. E.G. Imagine AH Yimach
shemo being re-incarnated as each one of his 6 million plus victims! It
would certainly allow him to suffer midah knegged midah in quite a  precise
way that a simple "fire"in gehnneom could not match so precisely.

It also effects real tikkun. A miser in one lifetime can be a philanthropist
in another. Ever wonder why a really non-Shomer Mitzvos might be a chashuva
ba'al tzedakkah? well, maybe he was a very Observant Miser in a previous
lifetime and he really needs to be mesakken that one bad middah.  Poof!  He
r e-incarnates and focuses on his one area where he was a letdown.

Re-incarnation can really make a lot of sense to me. Everything can be
accounted for in a most just way.

The middos of Tzedek and  Chessed are highly ingrained in us Jews. A system
of s'char v'onesh that  really can account for each  good and bad middah
HERE is very attractive

-- 
Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
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