Life of the Soul

Life of the Soul

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

Gondos, Andrea; Sachs-Shmueli, Leore

State University of New York Press

12/2024

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Andrea Gondos and Leore Sachs- Shmueli

Section I. Medieval App roaches to Reincarnat ion

1. The Secrets of Soul Impregnation (Ibbur) in Early Kabbalah and the Doctrine of Reincarnation
Moshe Idel

2. The Effaced Eagle- Man and Other Problems: Reincarnated Embodiment in Guf ha- Zohar
Ellen D. Haskell

3. The Emergence of the Concept Gilgul: The Sefer ha- Bahir and the Ba'al ha- Tikkunim
Pinchas Giller

4. "And the Next Day Her Belly Is Between Her Teeth": Feminine Symbolization in R. Joseph Angelet's Doctrine of Gilgul and Ibbur
Ruth Kara- Ivanov Kaniel

Section II . The Cosmic, Philosophical , and Temporal Dimensions of Reincarnat ion

5. Lives and Afterlives: Reincarnation, Cosmic Cycles, and the Medieval Jewish Present
Hartley Lachter

6. R. Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi's Cosmic Theory of Reincarnation, Din Bnei Halof
Jonnie Schnytzer

7. The Soul's Point of No Return: Jewish Philosophical Perspectives on Reincarnation
James A. Diamond

Section III . Reincarnat ion, Psy chology , and Lurianic Kabbala h: From Safed to East ern Europe to Bag hdad

8. Personal Identity and the Ontology of the Soul: Aspects of Reincarnation in ?ayyim Vital's Sha?ar ha- Gilgulim
Eitan P. Fishbane

9. A Seething Cauldron of Infinite Soul- Sparks: Lurianizing Introjection/Psychoanalyzing Gilgul
Nathaniel Berman

10. Reincarnation (Gilgul) as Traversing Boundaries of Identity from Lurianic Kabbalah to Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar
Shaul Magid

11. The Dead Who Yearn to Die: Spirit- Possession and Soul- Healing in the Accounts of R. Hillel Ba'al Shem of Eastern Europe and R. Yehudah Fetaya of Baghdad
Andrea Gondos

Section IV . Has idic Teachings on Reincarnat ion: Between the Individual and the Community

12. Devotion Reborn: Gilgul and the Life of Praxis in Hasidism
Ariel Evan Mayse

13. Reincarnation in Hasidic Literature: Hagiography, Social Justice, and Halakhah
Roee Y. Goldschmidt

14. The Bratslav Hasidic Approach to Reincarnation into Animals: Morality, Society, and Financial Concerns
Leore Sachs- Shmueli

Contributor Biographies
Index
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