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THF OJ€ The Ohio Jewish Chronicle Serving Columbus and the Central Ohio Jewish Community since 1922 VOLUME 7p NUMBER 38 SEPTEMBER 17, 1992 19 ELUL 5752 DEVOTED TO AMERICAN AND JEWISH IDEALS wmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmsmmmum Former Miss America to Speak at Bonds reception page 2 Spanish expulsion topic of historical exhibit . page 2 Rescuer of Jews honored page 4 "Of Thee I Sing" is crisp musical satire page 4 Dennis Prager to speak at Scholarship Dinner page 6 NCJW to host media event page 7 Prof. Ruth Wisse to speak at 66th Annual Meeting page 15 At The JCC 20, 21 Calendar 17 Community 6-11 Dateline Israel 4 » -deration - .,,,.-...i.....„,„...,............... 14, ,15. Front Page f. 2, 3. Lifecycle 16, 17 ' Marketplace 18 - New Generation.. 19 Synagogue*.... 12 . • Viewpoint.,.....,. 4, S Uliio Hist.Sdcief.y 198 _ Velma Ave. , Columbus, Ohio • CUMP DEATH COMMUNITY FEATURE The Jewish soul and reincarnation By Ina Horwitz "I was standing on top of a tower, one of those castle towers made of stone. My hands were tied behind my back. Then 1 felt an excruciating pain in my back. I was being lanced, I could feel the lance in my back ..." The woman recalling these gruesome details was not telling of an experience in her present life, but rather giving the terrifying account of a death in a past life. Her revelations came through hypnotic regression therapy conducted by noted Miami psychiatrist and writer Brian L. Weiss. Or. Weiss, a graduate of Vale Medical School and the author of two book- on past life experiences, will be the keynote speaker at the 1992 Beth Jacob Religious Emphasis Week program on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 8 p.m.. The theme of this year's forum is "The Jewish Soul." The belief in reincarnation of souls is discussed extensively in the Kabbalah, the body of Jewish mysticism, which literally means "handed down" or "the . tradition," said Beth Jacob's spiritual leader, Rabbi David Stavsky. The Kabbalah, believed to be "handed down" the same time as the Torah was to Moses, was dormant until it became a popular movement in the 16th century. At that time, in the northern Israeli city of Tzat, the scholar Isaac Luria and other serious Jewish mystics startedjo reveal its writings. While Dr. Weiss, a man with impeccable scientific credentials, is not an orthodox Jew as are many who believe in the Kabbalah's words, his regression therapy studies and those works in the Kabbalah's • Zohar, taught by Luria, arrive essentially at the same1 conclusion — that persons who have departed this world can return to earth for short periods of time to correct or amend something done or left undone by their souls. This is offered as an explanation to the age-old, often re peated questions: "Why do tragic things happen?" and/or "Why is a person struck down in the prime of life?" Another featured guest speaker at the program, Sheina Konigsberg (a pseudonym that she uses on the lecture curcuit) from Brooklyn, N.Y., asked herself similar questions almost 25 years ago when four people she knew well were killed in an automobile accident. Konigsberg, a wife, mother, successful graphic artist and Hasidic Jew, traded an upper class suburban lifestyle for a Hasidic.one, when she seriously began to study the Jewish mystics and their concept of reincarnation. Konigsberg was the subject of Holy Days — The World of the Hasidic Family, written by Liz Harris, who spent more than a year experiencing the death of the Lubavitch Hasdic life. , "I needed answers to satisfy me logically," Konigsberg said. "I was astounded at first to learn that reincarnation is <\, part of Judaism. I think there are many people today who want serious answers and don't realize Jewish mysticism is a part of Jewish thought and traditions." Kabbalists say the righteous suffer because they are carrying the souls of someone else. Kabbalists also teach that mourning excessively for the dead is senseless because a world exists beyond this one where the soul of your deceased body lives on to meet and see again the faces of your children and the soul of your loved ones. Rabbi Stavsky noted that the answers found in the Kabbalah are not for a skeptic but for a true believer. Zofar (the Books of Splendor) is the codebook on the meaning of life. It emphasizes mankind's connection to God, and that connection, according to Rabbi Stavsky, "can only be a spiritual unbilical cord (which is defined as the soul)." The works of the Kabbalah did not, of course, depend on hypnosis. Rather, revelation see SOUL pg. 5
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Full Text | THF OJ€ The Ohio Jewish Chronicle Serving Columbus and the Central Ohio Jewish Community since 1922 VOLUME 7p NUMBER 38 SEPTEMBER 17, 1992 19 ELUL 5752 DEVOTED TO AMERICAN AND JEWISH IDEALS wmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmsmmmum Former Miss America to Speak at Bonds reception page 2 Spanish expulsion topic of historical exhibit . page 2 Rescuer of Jews honored page 4 "Of Thee I Sing" is crisp musical satire page 4 Dennis Prager to speak at Scholarship Dinner page 6 NCJW to host media event page 7 Prof. Ruth Wisse to speak at 66th Annual Meeting page 15 At The JCC 20, 21 Calendar 17 Community 6-11 Dateline Israel 4 » -deration - .,,,.-...i.....„,„...,............... 14, ,15. Front Page f. 2, 3. Lifecycle 16, 17 ' Marketplace 18 - New Generation.. 19 Synagogue*.... 12 . • Viewpoint.,.....,. 4, S Uliio Hist.Sdcief.y 198 _ Velma Ave. , Columbus, Ohio • CUMP DEATH COMMUNITY FEATURE The Jewish soul and reincarnation By Ina Horwitz "I was standing on top of a tower, one of those castle towers made of stone. My hands were tied behind my back. Then 1 felt an excruciating pain in my back. I was being lanced, I could feel the lance in my back ..." The woman recalling these gruesome details was not telling of an experience in her present life, but rather giving the terrifying account of a death in a past life. Her revelations came through hypnotic regression therapy conducted by noted Miami psychiatrist and writer Brian L. Weiss. Or. Weiss, a graduate of Vale Medical School and the author of two book- on past life experiences, will be the keynote speaker at the 1992 Beth Jacob Religious Emphasis Week program on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 8 p.m.. The theme of this year's forum is "The Jewish Soul." The belief in reincarnation of souls is discussed extensively in the Kabbalah, the body of Jewish mysticism, which literally means "handed down" or "the . tradition," said Beth Jacob's spiritual leader, Rabbi David Stavsky. The Kabbalah, believed to be "handed down" the same time as the Torah was to Moses, was dormant until it became a popular movement in the 16th century. At that time, in the northern Israeli city of Tzat, the scholar Isaac Luria and other serious Jewish mystics startedjo reveal its writings. While Dr. Weiss, a man with impeccable scientific credentials, is not an orthodox Jew as are many who believe in the Kabbalah's words, his regression therapy studies and those works in the Kabbalah's • Zohar, taught by Luria, arrive essentially at the same1 conclusion — that persons who have departed this world can return to earth for short periods of time to correct or amend something done or left undone by their souls. This is offered as an explanation to the age-old, often re peated questions: "Why do tragic things happen?" and/or "Why is a person struck down in the prime of life?" Another featured guest speaker at the program, Sheina Konigsberg (a pseudonym that she uses on the lecture curcuit) from Brooklyn, N.Y., asked herself similar questions almost 25 years ago when four people she knew well were killed in an automobile accident. Konigsberg, a wife, mother, successful graphic artist and Hasidic Jew, traded an upper class suburban lifestyle for a Hasidic.one, when she seriously began to study the Jewish mystics and their concept of reincarnation. Konigsberg was the subject of Holy Days — The World of the Hasidic Family, written by Liz Harris, who spent more than a year experiencing the death of the Lubavitch Hasdic life. , "I needed answers to satisfy me logically," Konigsberg said. "I was astounded at first to learn that reincarnation is <\, part of Judaism. I think there are many people today who want serious answers and don't realize Jewish mysticism is a part of Jewish thought and traditions." Kabbalists say the righteous suffer because they are carrying the souls of someone else. Kabbalists also teach that mourning excessively for the dead is senseless because a world exists beyond this one where the soul of your deceased body lives on to meet and see again the faces of your children and the soul of your loved ones. Rabbi Stavsky noted that the answers found in the Kabbalah are not for a skeptic but for a true believer. Zofar (the Books of Splendor) is the codebook on the meaning of life. It emphasizes mankind's connection to God, and that connection, according to Rabbi Stavsky, "can only be a spiritual unbilical cord (which is defined as the soul)." The works of the Kabbalah did not, of course, depend on hypnosis. Rather, revelation see SOUL pg. 5 |
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