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I came across an interesting sermon by a rabbi called Simon
Jacobson who addresses some subjects that makes me think he is revealing some
secrets from inside closed Jewish sects. Judaism is a religion with a huge
amount of variety, almost as much as Hinduism; and this has led to a lot of
internal conflict. There's an old joke that if Robinson Crusoe had been Jewish
he would have built two synagogues on his island; one to worship in and one to
refuse to worship in. Rabbi Jacobson's
video has the most intriguing title:
Why
Jewish Knowledge of Reincarnation was Kept Secret. He begins by explaining
the popular New Age refrain: we are not human beings having a spiritual experience;
we are spiritual beings having a human experience. And, like the New Age, he
discusses the difference between soul and body and asks if we have had past
lives before the one we are currently living. He brings forward evidence in the
form of
déjà vu. He uses the analogy
of a fridge and electricity, which is the equivalent of the old TV set and
radio waves one, to illustrate the difference between body and soul. He also
seems to understand Karma in a similar way to the Hindus and neopagans. According
to the Hebrew Bible and Talmud, human souls after death go to a place called
Sheol or
Olam Haba in which souls live together without personality or
strength, in a state known as "shade". Depending on the specific
teaching, the souls may or may not be separated according to their earthly
conduct. There is no concept of eternal damnation or Hell in the Christian
sense. These souls would only be resurrected after the Eschaton and the arrival
of the Messiah, see here for details:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/08/apocalypse-soon.html
and:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/01/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-truth-seekers.html.
Despite the above orthodox teachings, many Jews still
believe in reincarnation. They cite several biblical passages, including the
best known, John's Gospel 1-21 where somebody asks Jesus: "Are you
Elijah?" meaning the prophet Elijah from the Book of Kings. The questioner
must therefore believe in reincarnation. Jews even have a name for it:
Gilgul, literally "wheel",
illustrating the notion as a recurring cycle. This is a common folk belief,
especially among the Ashkenazim, the world's largest Jewish ethnicity. Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4vLzaVER80.
Rabbi Jacobson's lecture reminds me of Anthony Peake, see:
https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/02/anthony-peake-book-launch.html.
The rabbi's theory about the secrecy of reincarnation is not political, but
theological; he says souls only have very limited past life memory, if any, so
that we can play our role in our current incarnation with fresh minds, unaware
of the bigger picture that might influence us. He compares it to watching a
play and obeying spoiler alerts. This is also a common idea in other faiths.
According to the Greeks, there was a river between the world of the living and
the dead called
Styx and those who crossed it lost all
memory of the life they had just completed. An equivalent in popular culture is
from the Wachowski's
The Matrix film
where the Oracle lies to Neo and then later tells him: "there's a
difference between walking the path and knowing it." I don't doubt that
idea. If I've had a million past lives, for instance, what would I do with all
those memories? However, I think there's a political element to the matter
which is strangely equivalent to the UFO cover-up, see the background links
below for details. Rabbi Jacobson expresses no knowledge of this and I'm
curious to know if he understands it. I find ideas most interesting when
different people independently converge of them from separate perspectives.
This makes them far more likely to be true.
See here for
background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-discovery-film-review.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-if-we-discover-life-after-death.html.