Gilgul: How Judaism's Soul Recycling Actually Works
Reincarnation is missing from the Hebrew Bible, the Mishnah, the Talmud, and Maimonides' thirteen principles of faith. Yet gilgul neshamot — the recycling of souls — sits at the center of Kabbalah and Hasidic Judaism. This episode traces how a doctrine the tradition's rationalists called incompatible with Jewish identity became a firmly established option on the menu of Jewish afterlife beliefs. Along the way: why Saadia Gaon found transmigration offensive, what the Zohar's replanting metaphor actually claims, and why Hinduism and Buddhism — which look identical from the outside — are near…
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