[Avodah] missing years in Hebrew calendar

[D via Avodah]

Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 12:19:57 +0300
From: Eli Turkel via Avodah <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>
> In any case the TABC article makes the clear point that Chazal had a
> tendency to conflate figures in Tanach. Some examples

> 1) Probably the most famous is Pinchas=Eliyahu
...

> Besiades the fact that Eliyahu was from Gilad and worked in the northern
> kingdom it leaves the halachic question whether a cohen gadol can resign
> and even leave the land of Israel for various tasks. It is clear from
> Tanach that Eli and other were the high priest in later generations

Re Pinchos = Eliyohu
The Ari says clearly [through the pen of R. Chaim Vital] in Shaar HaGilgulim 
that this refers to a gilgul neshomoh, not that he was literally the same 
person in body as well.
DR