The Life of the Soul

Jewish Perspectives on Reincarnation from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period

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Jewish Perspectives on Reincarnation from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period

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1 Online-Ressource; 4. "And the Next Day Her Belly Is Between Her Teeth": Feminine Symbolization in R. Joseph Angelet's Doctrine of Gilgul and Ibbur -- Angelet's Sources and Teachers in His Chapters on the Secrets of Ibbur and Gilgul -- The Book Bahir (Sefer ha- Bahir) -- Reincarnation as a secret transmitted by "my Teacher" -- Ibn Gaon -- The Influence of R. Joseph Shalom Ashkenazi (the RY ''Sh) -- Gilgul and Ibbur as Processes of Birthing -- Gilgul and the Cyclical Nature of the Shekhinah -- Rachel and Leah as Malkuth and Binah: The Feminine Aspects of the Soul's Ascent -- Notes -- Conclusion; Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Reincarnation Inflected through Time, History, and Justice -- Medieval Origins of the Doctrine of Reincarnation: Kabbalah and Philosophy -- Reincarnation and Jewish Law: Revealing the Secret of the Commandments -- Transmigration in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Dissemination, Disputation, and the Christian Perspective -- Inversion and the Traversal of Boundaries: Soul-Repair, Redemption, and Biblical Characters -- Social Dimensions of Reincarnation: The Ẓaddik and the Community -- Chapter Summaries -- Notes; Procreation, Reincarnation, and Disruption: Tensions in the System -- Embodiment and Normativity:The Status of Reincarnated Persons -- Concluding Thoughts: Diversity and Determination -- Notes -- 3. The Emergence of the Concept Gilgul: The Sefer ha- Bahir and the Ba'al ha- Tikkunim -- Kabbalistic Origins of Gilgul: The Case of Sefer ha-Bahir -- Variant Doctrines of Reincarnation Cycles in the Tikkunim -- The Wheel of Gilgul and the Circles of Life-Death -- The Maidservant and the Redemption of the Shekhinah -- Biblical Personalities and Reincarnation -- Conclusion -- Notes; Section I. Medieval App roaches to Reincarnation -- 1. The Secrets of Soul Impregnation (Ibbur) in Early Kabbalah and the Doctrine of Reincarnation -- Reincarnation in Nahmanides and His School -- The Secret of Impregnation (Ibbur) as the Impregnation of the Divine Presence -- Ma'arekhet ha-Elohut: A Synthesis between Impregnation and Reincarnation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2. The Effaced Eagle-Man and Other Problems: Reincarnated Embodiment in Guf ha-Zohar -- Reincarnation as an Embodied System in the Zohar: Historical Observations; Section II . The Cosmic, Philosophical, and Temporal Dimensions of Reincarnat ion -- 5. Lives and Afterlives: Reincarnation, Cosmic Cycles, and the Medieval Jewish Present -- Reincarnation and the Doctrine of Shemittot -- Reincarnation and the Crucible of History -- Jewish Souls in Foreign Territory -- Imagining the Present Through Past and Future Lives -- Notes -- 6. R. Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi's Cosmic Theory of Reincarnation, Din Bnei Halof -- The Cosmic System of Reincarnation: Din Bnei Ḥalof -- Reincarnation of Spirits -- Metempsychosis (Shelaḥ)