From: Death@yabbs
To: Pele@yabbs
Subject: re: Other religions
Date: Sat Jul 23 02:13:01 1994
Alright, let me dig up my notebook... :>
When I find it, I'll add more detail to this, but for starters here's two:
Judaism:
 Among those who study Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism) it has been determined 
through careful study of the Tanach (the 5 books of Moses, Prophets, and 
Writings) that there are several instances where major figures in the 
bible's Nishomot (souls) returned to try and redeem themselves. This is 
reffered to as Gilgul (reincarnation, of sorts). Many people have spent 
there lives researching this, and there is one prominent example which I 
can reveal in detail. Moses, (the one who led the Israelites out of Egypt 
had, in fact, existed in a previous life. There are many symbolic, and 
substantial links between Moses and Noah. Noah was given 120 years to try 
and save the world, before the floods. Moses lived for EXACTLY 120 years, 
to the day. This occurance was explained to me by the following reasoning:
G-d knew he had given Noah a near-impossible task for a mortal to 
accomplish, so he found the Nishoma (soul) of Moses who had not yet walked 
upon the Earth, and added it to that of Noah, in the hopes of giving him a 
chance. When Noah failed, G-d removed the soul of Moses, and decreed that 
it would have a second chance to redeem itself. Thus, Moses himself was 
born a little while later. When at the Red Sea, the sea did not 
actually part for Moses, but for the coffin of Joshua (Jacob's favorite 
son) which was born out of Egypt on he back of the Isrealites. This is 
because the sea remembered Moses and blamed him for having had to destroy 
everything. In fact, in his speech to the Israelites upon reaching the sea 
(which is a prayer chanted every morning, incidentally) there appears to 
be a second conversation going on, between Moses and the sea, although 
only one half of it can be "heard" In it, Moses says "Please wipe me out, 
I'm from Noach" which is yet another link. I'm going to stop now, before 
the server kicks me for inactivity... more later.

   This has been a friendly lesson in Kabbalah...
    --Les