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"Gate of Reincarnations" Chapter Two, Section 1: Entry of Nefesh, Ruach & Neshama throughout Life
Translation by Yitzchok bar Chaim
Explanation by Shabtai Teicher
When a person is born, his Nefesh enters him. If he is
adequately rectified through his actions, his Ruach will enter him at
the end of his thirteenth year when he becomes a "completed person."
His Neshama will enter him only when he completes his twentieth year, as
it says in the Zohar (Mishpatim 94b).
This is talking about the ideal situation during a person's
first gilgul, as we will soon see.
However, if he does not completely rectify his Ruach, then
the Neshama will not enter him and he will remain with only his Nefesh
and Ruach. Likewise, if he doesn't completely rectify his Nefesh,
then he will remain with only his Nefesh, lacking both his Ruach
and Neshama. The Ruach and Neshama will remain in a place
known to The Holy One, Blessed is He, and there a place will be prepared for
each one.
In other words, until a person is able to receive all parts
of his soul, the parts he has yet to receive remain hidden away by G-d until
the person is ready for them.  | | " He will have to die and return in order to receive the Ruach" | | |
Now, if a person does not completely rectify his Nefesh
the first time and dies, then his Nefesh will have to reincarnate,
perhaps even many times, until it is sufficiently rectified. However, since he
only achieved tikun through a gilgul, even after complete
rectification is achieved his Ruach will not enter (unless there is a
pressing need, as will be explained, G-d willing).
Had it been his first gilgul, then he could have
received his Ruach while still alive in his original body. This is not
the case if the rectification of the Nefesh is completed during
subsequent gilgulim.
He will have to die and return in order to receive the Ruach.
Furthermore, once the Ruach is sufficiently rectified, then he will also
have to reincarnate before receiving a Neshama, as was the case with the
Ruach.
After he finally rectifies his Nefesh and dies, in
the next reincarnation he will return with a Nefesh and a Ruach.
Once the Ruach is rectified as well, then he will die and come back in
another gilgul with a Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama.
If the Ruach is not sufficiently rectified, then the Nefesh
and the Ruach will have to come back again, perhaps many times, until
the Ruach is rectified. Once rectification is achieved, then the person
will die and his Nefesh and Ruach will come back with the proper Neshama
until all three are rectified. Once this is done, there is no need for any
further gilgulim. When his Neshama is completed, he has become a "complete
person." To review the information previously presented in this reincarnation series so far, link to the Review of Chapter 1, click here
To link to the next article in this reincarnation series, Levels of Rectification,
click here
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Visitor Comments: 2
Davida Rosenberg,2/22/2004
1) Since many of the 613 mitzvot pertain only to The Temple, why do we have to achieve them?
2) If it is appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgement, why are we constantly on a return trip?
3) Isn't reincarnation a borrowed idea from India and the orient? ,2/23/2004
Dear Beam me up,
1) Because the mitzvot are for us, not for wood and stone, and each one has its own purification to accomplish.
2) The return trip is only if so decrees the judgment.
3) No. Indeed, tare hints in the Talmud that India-Orient took from us, not the other way around.
the concept goes back a long way in Judaism, found in old commentaries on the birth of Shet, the idea of yibum, and a few different verses in Mishpatim. for example: http://www.kabbalaonline.org/Safedteachings/sfzohar/The_Secret_of_Servitude.asp .
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