[Avodah] Reincarnation (was Women and Tefillin)

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From: "Prof. Levine" <llevine at stevens.edu>
>> Rabbi  Avigdor Miller would not talk about reincarnation, since it is 
not mentioned  even once in the entire Talmud Bavli. Personally, I do 
not think that he  believed in gilgul, but he never said this to me  
explicitly.<<



Yitzchok Levine 

 
 
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The Talmud may have talked about reincarnation, but not explicitly.   
Sometimes the Talmud says that such and such a person in Tanach was really  this 
other person -- e.g., Eliyahu Hanavi was Pinchas -- and the two lived  
centuries apart.  Another example is the "wise woman" who advised handing  over 
Sheva ben Bichri to Yoav in Dovid's time (Shmuel II 20:16) rather  than allow 
the whole city to be destroyed -- she is identified as Serach bas  Asher.  
It is at least a plausible inference in such cases that  the person who 
lived later is a reincarnation of the earlier person or in some  sense shares 
the earlier person's soul or a spark of the former's  soul.
 

--Toby Katz
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