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Level Three - Splinters
Gate of Reincarnations" Chapter Seven, Section 7
Translation by Yitzchok bar Chaim;
explanation by Shabtai Teicher
The third level constitutes those souls
that fell amongst the kelipot after Adam
sinned, from which came his son Seth and others. These are old souls and the
lowest of all of the types, because they fell from Adam and splintered into
many sparks and pieces as a result of his sin. Since these souls had once been part of Adam, they are called "old",
meaning from a previous gilgul.  | | " Their residence within Adam is considered a first incarnation..." | | |
When they were within Adam they could have become rectified
if he had not sinned. Consequently, their residence within Adam is considered a
first incarnation. When any of them will come again into the body of a mortal
human being, it will be the second incarnation of that soul.
When they come back in the body of a person who later dies, the
soul is considered to have incarnated twice, etc. Now, when a soul from this
level comes into a body for the first time, it only has the ability to rectify
a portion [of the soul] in each gilgul.
The information in most of the rest of this section has
already been taught previously. Indeed, this section is a wonderful summary and
review of much of what has preceded it. The serious student might take the
opportunity after this section to reread the preceding chapters.
In the beginning only a portion of the Nefesh will come to be
rectified. For example, if the Nefesh was from the malchut of the Nukva of
Asiya, then rectification will be
necessary until keter of Aliyah is completed.
Each part must be rectified until the tikun of the entire Nefesh
is completed. When this has been accomplished, then the person will die and
return in a second body with the Ruach
in order to complete its tikun. When
that tikun is accomplished, then the
person will die and return in a third body with the Neshama to achieve its tikun.
When this is done, then he too will die. However, no more reincarnations will
be necessary. | | " The Nefesh...needs to reincarnate as many times as it is necessary until it achieves rectification..." | | |
We have already explained that when the Ruach comes to be rectified, it does so clothed within the
Nefesh of a convert. The same is true
regarding the Neshama as well.
Since a tainted Ruach
or Neshama cannot come back clothed
within a rectified Nefesh or Ruach, if the Nefesh does not complete its tikun,
then it needs to reincarnate as many times as it is necessary until it achieves
rectification. After that, the Ruach
will come into another body with the Nefesh
of a convert and will reincarnate by itself many times, until it is complete.
After that, the Neshama will come by
itself in yet another body, reincarnating many times, if necessary, until it is
complete.
If the Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama are rectified, but then the person sins causing a blemish
to them, which necessitates reincarnation, as we have described, he will only
be able to rectify either the Nefesh,
or the Ruach, or the Neshama each time. He will have to start again, but he cannot return with all
three of them. | | " There are those that reincarnate...to rectify and guide the people of their generation ..." | | |
However, it may be
that a person rectifies his NR"N to the heights of Atzilut, and he reincarnates, not for his own
sake, but for that of another. Since he neither sinned nor caused a blemish, he
can retain in this gilgul, even while still only a child, all that which he achieved
previously. This is the secret of the son of Rav Hamnuna Sabba, mentioned in
[ Zohar] parashat Balak, and the rest of the phenomenally
righteous and wise children mentioned in the> Zohar. They were complete from previous
gilgulim in all their NR"N [and other parts that were already
rectified].
This is new information, but it is surprising. If he is not
coming for his own sake, but for someone else, then why is he reincarnating?
And if he is coming as an ibur, we have learned in Chapter Five, Section
1, and in Chapter 38 that an ibur comes only after the age of thirteen
years and a day?
To clarify this problem we will translate a section from Sefer
Ha Gilgulim, the beginning of Chapter 12, where the words of the Rav are more
detailed and clearer.
There are those that reincarnate for the sake of others, to
rectify and guide the people of their generation. Since people like these are
perfect tzadikim that may have
merited even the Neshama of Atzilut or similar [very high levels], they
do not need to reincarnate for themselves. They only reincarnate for the needs
of the hour for the sake of others, to rectify and guide the people of the
generation. These people can certainly achieve all their NR"N together, at one time, and all their other parts that
were already rectified [as well]. This is the reason that we find young
children whose deeds are wondrous like the son of Rav Hamnuna Sabba in [Zohar] Vayechi [who is also] the child in [Zohar]
parashat Balak and all the other [wonder]
children [throughout the Zohar]. These did not come to complete themselves, but
for others. Therefore, they achieved NR"N
and all that they had accomplished beforehand in one time, and that is why they
were different and wondrous in wisdom.
I, Chaim the writer,
am in doubt, however, regarding those who must reincarnate, but not to rectify
a sin but to make up for a lacking.
They had not yet fulfilled some Positive Mitzvah, as opposed to
actually transgressing a Negative Mitzvah. The question here is whether they
will they return with all their previously acquired levels, or not.
In Sefer HaGilgulim, in the chapter just quoted the
Rav answers this question in the affirmative and unequivocally. To link to the previous article in this reincarnation series,
Advantage of Level 2 Souls, click here
To link to the next article in this reincarnation series,
Spirit from the Depths, click here
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