Question about the Ari (the saint?)
Peace to the rabbi.
I got to read the rabbi’s books and was very impressed. I also saw the rabbi’s teaching regarding Kabbalah and whether it should be trusted, but I got stuck on a particular question that I didn’t see much of an answer to.
The Ari and his student Chaim Vital wrote several things on Kabbalistic topics. Such as: reincarnation, unique, sefirot, etc. And it could be that these were indeed certain intuitions they had and that is why they thought that way, but from what I have seen, this is about something a little beyond.
Chaim Vital wrote a book called “The Gate of Reincarnations” in which he explains what kind of reincarnation each biblical or sage figure was, and here I ask the rabbi, where did he get it? What is his source? How did he know that reincarnation is a real thing at all? Did it stem from an intuition he had? And even if we assume that it was, who guarantees us that his intuition is correct and that reincarnation must necessarily be taught today as a core belief.
I had the opportunity to debate with several people on the subject as well, and I presented to them the opinions of the geniuses and the first men on the subject. The Rabbis strongly denied the issue of reincarnation, and so did Maimonides, so how and who can be trusted on these issues?
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I do not trust them on these issues and I do not bring them as a source for negation.
Today, the issue of reincarnation is viewed as a core belief and anyone who denies this is considered an apostate, so I came to show that none of the first or the last recognized this issue at all and it is doubtful that people would call the Rabbi an apostate.
And regardless, why do rabbis (mostly accepted) still enthusiastically quote the words of the Ari and his student? When I asked people where Chaim Vital got his information on the issue of reincarnation, they told me that it was things he received through the Holy Spirit. Does this have any importance?
And as for them, where do they get the Holy Spirit from?
Suggest asking them
Reincarnation is a reality that the University of Virginia has a research department on and they say after forty years of investigation into it that there must be reincarnation and also clinical death and there is no belief in it. It is scientific research.
Daniel,
This topic, like many other mystical topics, has certainly been the focus of heated debate over the ages, but it is not part of Judaism. The fact that Jewish sages have expressed different opinions on it does not make it part of Judaism, just as different approaches among sages on medical or economic issues do not make them part of Judaism.
I actually think that the idea of reincarnation is logical and there are some findings that support it, and I am not surprised that it did not fit with the philosophy of Ras”G and Rambam, but R”u's words are not significant to me because the nature of the man and his connection to reality is not really clear to me, especially in light of the Book of Visions that he wrote, which is a very strange book.
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