<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Yitzhak Grossman <<a href="mailto:celejar@gmail.com">celejar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Note: I am not stating any opinion on the issues of rationalism,<br>
reincarnation, theodicy, and the very validity of the application of<br>
the concept of normativity to beliefs. I am merely making the point<br>
that at least one major pre Arizal and Besht figure maintained an<br>
unequivocal obligation to accept the non-rationalist view, at least on<br>
the question of reincarnation.<br>
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Yitzhak<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br></font></blockquote></div><br>FWIW I personally know several frum Rationalists - including a very rational frum Psychotherapist - who find re-incarnation quite rational.<br><br>Why? Because it really explains how things can be fair and balanced over the long run because individual life-spans seem often VERY unfair.<br>
<br>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. <br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Re-incarnation can really make a lot of sense to me. Everything can be accounted for in a most just way. <br><br>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 <br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>