10. Reincarnation (Gilgul) as Traversing Boundaries of Identity from Lurianic Kabbalah to Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Section I. Medieval App roaches to Reincarnation
6. 1. The Secrets of Soul Impregnation (Ibbur) in Early Kabbalah and the Doctrine of Reincarnation 27
7. 2. The Effaced Eagle- Man and Other Problems: Reincarnated Embodiment in Guf ha- Zohar 49
8. 3. The Emergence of the Concept Gilgul: The Sefer ha- Bahir and the Ba’al ha- Tikkunim 73
9. 4. “And the Next Day Her Belly Is Between Her Teeth”: Feminine Symbolization in R. Joseph Angelet’s Doctrine of Gilgul and Ibbur 97
10. Section II. The Cosmic, Philosophical , and Temporal Dimensions of Reincarnation
11. 5. Lives and Afterlives: Reincarnation, Cosmic Cycles, and the Medieval Jewish Present 125
12. 6. R. Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi’s Cosmic Theory of Reincarnation, Din Bnei Halof 151
13. 7. The Soul’s Point of No Return: Jewish Philosophical Perspectives on Reincarnation 177
14. Section III. Reincarnation, Psychology , and Lurianic Kabbalah: From Safed to Eastern Europe to Baghdad
15. 8. Personal Identity and the Ontology of the Soul: Aspects of Reincarnation in Ḥayyim Vital’s Shaʿar ha- Gilgulim 203
16. 9. A Seething Cauldron of Infinite Soul- Sparks: Lurianizing Introjection/Psychoanalyzing Gilgul 225
17. 10. Reincarnation (Gilgul) as Traversing Boundaries of Identity from Lurianic Kabbalah to Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar 249
18. 11. The Dead Who Yearn to Die: Spirit- Possession and Soul- Healing in the Accounts of R. Hillel Ba’al Shem of Eastern Europe and R. Yehudah Fetaya of Baghdad 273
19. Section IV. Hasidic Teachings on Reincarnation: Between the Individual and the Community
20. 12. Devotion Reborn: Gilgul and the Life of Praxis in Hasidism 303
21. 13. Reincarnation in Hasidic Literature: Hagiography, Social Justice, and Halakhah 327
22. 14. The Bratslav Hasidic Approach to Reincarnation into Animals: Morality, Society, and Financial Concerns 347
23. Contributor Biographies 373
24. Index 377