Referring to Rabbi Luria's metaphorical, metaphysical allusion to King David, Bathsheba, and Uriah the Hittite, as all being the reincarnations of, respectively, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, the author of this article on the Shearim website writes:
"This kind of conclusion may sound rather off but there is also no proof for any opposing statement."
I must take serious issue with this first of the author's extrapolations put forth in this article, and my response follows:
THERE IS ALSO NO PROOF FOR ANY PROPOSING STATEMENT!
Furthermore, it is not possible to "prove" a negative, so of course there never could be "proof" of a statement opposing a metaphysical extrapolation, which in and of itself, is an article of faith and can not be "proven".
People whose thinking follows that of this author are dangerously imbalanced individuals.
Regardless of which religion or sect a person is raised up within, each and every one of them attracts people who share this mindset.
Borderline psychotics, simple schizoid personalities, and other semi-functional individuals are instinctively attracted to religious doctrines and cults which provide for them a convenient 'cover', for both their bizarre ideation as well as for their anti-social, dysfunctional, and reclusive personalities.
I am not writing this as an attack on Rabbi Luria or other Kabalists who spent their lives in search for the deepest possible meanings hidden within Torah.
But neither do I embrace every single word and Talmudic argument offered by a Rabbi as "infallible" on the basis of "if they're an esteemed Rabbi, or a student of an esteemed Rabbi, then I must accept their word as equal to or superceding that of G-d Himself".
I certainly don't believe, nor do I accept the proposition, that Rabbi Yitzhak Luria's studies in Torah were done for the purposes of my being forced to accept them or face condemnation.
It is most unfortunate that 'cults of personality' have long pervaded the Jewish religious world, which at their most extreme often resemble a Hindu Ashram inhabited by an infallible Guru - himself a disciple of a long-dead mystic Yogi reputed to have supernatural abilities, whose metaphysical doctrines and every utterance are accepted by followers as "the very word of G-d".
The classic hallmark of a cult of personality are the omnipresent framed portraits of the succession of leadership, usually with airbrushed halos surrounding their heads, hung on a wall in every room.
