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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: "Prof. Levine" <llevine@stevens.edu><BR>>> Rabbi
Avigdor Miller would not talk about reincarnation, since it is <BR>not mentioned
even once in the entire Talmud Bavli. Personally, I do <BR>not think that he
believed in gilgul, but he never said this to me
explicitly.<<<BR><BR><BR><BR>Yitzchok Levine </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B><BR>--Toby Katz<BR>================</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_____________________</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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