rosenzweig@icarus.DEC (12/13/84)
I BELIEVE THE CLASSICAL TEXT ON THIS IS "THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS" OR IN HEBREW THE GILGAMOT HANEFISH. THIS IS FROM CHASSIDUS AND I DO NOT KNOW THE AUTHOR. THERE ARE MANY TALES OF THE BAAL SHEM TOV VISITING AND PLEADING FOR DEAD SOULS. EVEN MISNAGGIDIM BELIEVE IN JUDGMENT DAY REFERRED TO IN YOM KIPPER LITURGY. ALSO TO THE PARTY LOOKING FOR ARAMAIC AND HEBREW TEXTS, I BELIEVE THE JEWISH ALMANAC HAS SUCH THINGS LISTED IN IT. OTHERWISE THE HEBREW LIBRARIAN AT THE HARVARD WIDDENER LIBRARY IN CAMBRIDGE COULD SUPPLY YOU WITH THE EXACT TEXT. THIS LIBRARY HAS THE MOST EXTENSIVE HEBREW AND JEWISH LIBRARY OUTSIDE OF THE (BELIEVE IT OR NOT) VATICAN LIBRARY. IF YOU FIND THE ANSWER I WOULD APPRECIATE KNOWING. I HAVE ANOTHER ONE WHILE WE'RE AT IT...HOW ABOUT A TEXT IN RASHI SCRIPT? DOES IT EXIST OR WOULD THAT HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED A DEFILEMENT OF THE WORD? I NEED SOMETHING FOR AN ARTICLE THAT'S DUE IN ABOUT A MONTH ON JEWS AND CHRISTIANS...IDEAS, INCIDENTS, REFERENCES, ARTICLES, BOOKS, STUDIES.....WHATEVER....ORIGINAL IDEAS IF YOU DON'T MIND BEING QUOTED IN THE PUBLICATION GENESIS II. I WOULD APPEAL TO ALL OF YOU NOT TO MAKE HASTY DECISIONS OR JUDGEMENTS ABOUT MY POINT OF VIEW YET, JUST BECAUSE I HAVE QUOTED A CHASSIDIC SOURCE, AND REFERRED TO A "NEW AGE" PUBLICATION LIKE GENESIS II (WHERE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, YOURS TRULY DOES MANY "TRADITION" ARTICLES. SOME OF YOU OUT THERE MAY LIKE AN AUTHOR LIKE ART WASKOW, BUT I ALSO STUDY DER ALTE REBBE... MAYBE I'LL TRANSFER MY LAST ARTICLE TO THE NET TO DEFINE MY POSITION A LITTLE MORE...I'M REALLY AN ADULT LEARNER AT THIS, AND QUITE SLOW IN MY HEBREW STILL..I GO FOR THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, AND NOT THE LETTER...SO IF YOU HAVE ANY SCHOLARSHIP TO ENLIGHTEN THE LETTERS OF WHICH I AM IGNORANT, I WOULD APPRECIATE THESE AS WELL. EVEN THOUGH I AM A LITTLE SLOW, AND THE LAST ONE TO SIT DOWN FROM THE AMIDAH, THE LETTERS SINK IN QUITE DEEPLY. AND IF WE SHOULD ENTER INTO DISAGREEMENTS AS ALL JEWS DO, LET IT BE AN ARGUMENT FOR THE SAKE OF HEAVEN... SINCERELY YOURS, THE NEW MEMBER OF THE NETWORK CHAVERAH ROSIE ROSENZWEIG TEMPLE BETH EL, SUDBURY MA DIGITAL EQUIPMENT, MAYNARD MA