If We Were Born Once We Can Be Born Again
I asked my team of dear readers to opine on the question of reincarnation. Practice you believe that we are born once again, or is it once and done?
From B I received this pious and tender missive,
Hello Rabbi Gellman,
What do I remember? Nobody knows for certain what occurs after death. Although many people preach almost information technology, they don't really know. It's a matter of belief and we tin believe anything nosotros desire to believe. All we tin can exercise is live a skilful life co-ordinate to whatever faith we decide to believe in. Nosotros do know that at that place is something, an energy, a life force that animates usa for a while, which we usually call the soul. Since we don't know exactly what happens to this soul, we should give ourselves the best chance to make information technology a expert outcome. Cheers for request. Your column is bully.
From Dr. B I have for you a rather spooky only totally sincere affidavit of past lives,
Dear Rabbi,
No coincidences. I have only had a book just published entitled, "Three Men Half-dozen Lives."
It tells true stories, including my past life experience portrayed past three characters I created, 1 of which is me and a surgeon as I am today. To make a long story brusk, it's our consciousness which recycles and affects united states and our lives. Like the 5-twelvemonth-erstwhile who plays a violin or my becoming a surgeon to heal with a knife and not impale with a sword as in my past life.
I woke up to this when a friend asked me; why are you living this life? When she heard how busy I was, I went into a trance due to her words and saw the truth about my by life and the fact that I did non have faith in my Lord on world or true Lord and thus did many subversive things.
(Note from MG)
Dr. B raises a very interesting and perplexing question well-nigh reincarnation. If nosotros are reborn into new lives, why don't we remember our past lives? Pitiful, Dr. B, but the number of five-year-olds who tin can play the violin is in the zero range. And if our memories of by lives are wiped out in the spiritual automobile wash that cleanses us between lives, then what is the purpose of being reborn?
Both Aristotle and also the Jewish mystical tradition taught that only earlier a babe is born an affections tweaks the babe on the upper lip and causes an indentation (chosen the philtrum). This marker erases all memories and prevents the babe from request for a martini right afterwards nascency. As I said in my cavalcade, I believe in reincarnation, merely I am not oblivious to the many logistical and spiritual problems caused by this belief. It only seems to me that simple fairness (why should babies who dice at nativity or before be deprived of the opportunity to feel life?) and mercy (why should a few bad choices that ruin one's life spoil everything forever?) I just believe that God wants to give us a do over in life.
From S we take a reference to Dr. Brian Weiss.
Dear Rabbi Gellman:
This morn'due south column prompts me to inquire if you have read a book "Many Lives, Many Masters," by Brian L Weiss, MD? I recently listened to it on Aural on recommendation of a friend, who thought information technology might provide me with a different life perspective. It has. Before listening to Weiss' volume, I frankly dismissed reincarnation as an interesting, but strange conventionalities system. I'm non so certain anymore.
(MG responds)
My wife Betty dragged me to ane of Dr. Weiss' lectures and it reinforced my belief in reincarnation, but not for any of the reasons Dr. Weiss adduces. His 3 books, including the second two, "Through Time Into Healing" and "Simply Love is Real," have brought to millions not only the hope of reincarnation merely also the promise that the people we love in our life journeying keep appearing in every one of our lifetimes. The problem is that Dr. Weiss is a Yale-trained psychiatrist and people may exist falsely led to believe his claims as if they were scientific truths. They are not! They are beliefs that the spiritually needy among united states (including me) affirm because of our beliefs in the fairness and mercy of God. Weiss' then-chosen proof comes from hypnosis of patients and that is not a scientific methodology for proving how God loves u.s. over and over again.
In this life there are problems we can solve and mysteries we can merely run into and to which we tin only respond in dearest and humility. Whether we are built-in again or get to God forever later death is 1 of the great mysteries.
Send ALL QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS to The God Team via email at godsquadquestion@aol.com. Rabbi Gellman is the author of several books, including "Organized religion for Dummies," co-written with Fr. Tom Hartman.
Source: https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2020/09/11/whether-we-born-again-go-god-forever-after-death-one-great-mysteries/3461320001/
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