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Ask JTF For Rosh Chodesh Nissan, April 6.
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Chodesh Tov,
You said gilgul neshamot is an emunat tfella. Someone in a yeshiva in The Old City of Jerusalem told me that people can be reincarnated into cows or other food sources so a tikkun can be done. The tikkun is that the cow has to be kosherly shechted and then eaten by a descendant of the person whose spirit went into the cow. It can be in other food sources too. The descendants that eat that cow have to say the bracha on the food for the tikkun to take place. Hinduism thinks becoming a cow is a reward so they don't eat cows. Jews davka eat the cow because that is part of the tikkun.
Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim,
Chief Administrator.
דוד בן זאב אריה:
Dear Chaim,
Do you feel that any countries have righteous leaders?
Thank You.
TorahZionist:
I'm posting this for Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim.
I was told that The Ramchal is the reincarnation of Rabbi Akiva. The Ramchal died at a young age. He studied Torah his whole life and died the age Rabbi Akiva only started learning Torah. They are buried next to each other in Tiberias.
Kabbalah is the fourth layer of Torah after The Written Torah, The Talmud, and The Midrash. Do you agree? It is part one of the three parts of The Oral Torah revealed on Mount Sinai. Why do you say The Zohar was written less than one thousand years ago? Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai wrote it. You yourself agreed that he is the major rabbi of The Zohar. It is Secular professors and Bible critics that made up that it was written less than a thousand years ago. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai revealed it on Lag B'Omer the day he died. Before it was revealed on Mount Sinai but remained hidden to the select few. Even before that, Jacob learned Kabbalah at The Yeshiva of Shem and Ever which was located in The Cave of Shem and Ever in Tzfat on his way to Haran. It was revealed even to Adam. Little by little it was revealed more and more until Mount Sinai. Then Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai revealed it to the general Torah scholars. Perhaps he passed it orally and it was only WRITTEN less than 1,000 years ago. Rabbi Yitzhak Luria was revealed even more of The Kabbalah through Eliyahu HaNavi. Eliyahu HaNavi can reveal things to us now instead of G-d because we don't have prophesy. So Eliyahu reveals things to people instead of G-d revealing to a prophet. The Arizal (Rav Luria) made it more widely available and Hassidut made it available to the common man. Before it was limited to married Jewish men older than 40. I learned this all in a shiur at Bar-Ilan University taught by a student of Rabbi Carelbach who does outreach classes on Israeli university campuses for American students. I attended his shiurim at Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University. At Hebrew University he did a Parashat HaShavua class and at Bar-Ilan, he did various classes and gave out free pizza. His Hebrew University classes were part of a Beit Midrash after Monday Night Pizza Talk at the university synagogue. He is a rabbi and lives on the Carelbach Moshav Mevo Modi'in.
Rubystars:
Greetings Chaim. I've noticed that ultra-left feminists have latched onto Lilith as some kind of role model. What place does Lilith have in Jewish culture, and was she a real person? I can't seem to find a lot of concrete information on her by doing searches, and I'm not even sure who or what she was supposed to be.
eb22:
Shalom Chaim,
Recently, I listened to the Ask JTF Broadcast from back on January 3, 2007 ( program a ) . On that program, you focused on the Hebrew Language Wikipedia site not providing JTF with an article that was satisfactory. With their plan on totally eliminating an article about JTF from it's site.
My question is, what transpired after January 3, 2007, regarding the JTF article/ Hebrew Language Wikipedia situation? Thanks.
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