Please, let's be respectful to Lisa. She is a global moderator and she is Jewish.
While I happen to agree with most of the things you say (for example, I think that criticizing Rabbi Ovadia Yossef is dangerous and will turn a lot of people off to our movement), please handle debates in a respectful manner. I happen to believe in reincarnation but I do not hold malice towards her because she has a disagreement.
We have to have unity if we are going to become an effective mass movement. This type of debate can be very good.
For the record, yes... most Orthodox Jews believe in reincarnation. I happen to think it is a very logical belief even though I know our Christian members have some difficulty with this but remain respectful to us about it.
I respect those who respect the sages, and gedolim, I see no reason to have respect for a person promoting this fringe nonsense about R'ovadia's wrongfulness. Anyway, the type of reincarnation that Jews hold to be true has little to do with the actual person coming back, but rather, as whatis known as a gilgul shavua. I do not hold malice as you say because Lisa and I disagree, it is the way in which she presents her opinions as facts that bothers me, she gives me the impression that it's her way or no way, and she seems to not want to listen to torah opinions(see the thread on polygamy when she said something to the effect that her sentiment was her opinion and not the torah's, i was greatly troubled by that)
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Most frum Jews believe that a person has 3 chances to to what is called tikkun - repair - for his soul, for the sins he has accumulated while on this world. Some say that certain greart Rabbis were gilgulim,, or reincarnations, of historical jewish figures. Many have said that a certain great rabbi who lived a few hundred year ago was the gilgul of the great Tanna Rabbi Meir. We also believe that most souls today are recycled, and not original souls made in shomayim. That being said, most of us today are reincarnations of other people, Jews of course. Also, there is a teaching that states that a soul is like a flame, it creates sparks known as nitzutzim, that become independent flames on their own.