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Please tell me how this is kosher:
Regression therapy where someone takes you back into your previous life.
Thank you 🙂
Sounds apikorsus.
Like everything else in Judaism, it is kosher if a poseik says it’s kosher. If you need a psak, ask Rav Shmuel Irons of Detroit. He has studied this subject extensively.
There have been rare cases where a poseik has been matir this. For instance, someone had painful rashes that no doctor could explain and that did not heal. A past life regression revealed that this person had burned to death in a previous life. That knowledge resulted in being able to heal the rashes. (I don’t remember how exactly, but I think they used compresses that had been soaked in a mixture that contained kerosene.) However, in general, we are supposed to assume that the information we need is available via normal hishtadlus such as doctors, psychiatrists, etc. If it was good for us to know more, Hashem would have made it available via normal hishtadlus.
The Arizal used to tell people who they were in previous lives. The Baba Sali (according to his biography) asked another kabbalist whose neshama he had, and after “looking into it” the rav said it he had Chizkiyahu’s. But I’m not aware of rabbonim who do this now or say we should go to non-Jews for this reason.
We believe in gilgulim so in terms of hashkafa it might not be a problem if it’s done in a secular way (if that’s possible). But the potential to be confused or mislead or tricked by charlatans (or hypnotists who can get you to believe something is real when it’s not) is so big that it would seem to be a really bad idea. Perhaps if someone feels like they have a really good reason to they could get a heter from a Rav.
A rabbi in a shiur did it. So if he’s a rabbi, ask him.
You’re probably oveir bal tashchis on whatever money you spend on it.
This:
“A rabbi in a Torah Anytime shiur did it and said that we should try it”
does not necessarily mean this:
“There must be some way that it’s kosher and that’s why I asked because I want to understand”
Not everything that every Rabbi in every shiur says is Toras Moshe.
LB i think your comment about lashon hara was out of line Joseph had no inkling where you got this idea from.
LB, I’m curious why an ayin-hara lady would be contrary to Torah Judaism in your opinion.
Can I make a suggestion LB, which I think you will feel comfortable with based on your last few posts- start and stick with, and master the nigle (revealed part) of Torah- basic halacha, hashakfa and Torah pshat, before you venture into the nistar (hidden/kabala) parts. The latter cannot be understood at face-value to the unintiated, and it is quite hard to distinguish between what is real and legitimate and those things that are not really Jewish in nature, and may actually be avodah zora. There is a reason that chazal prohibit learning kabbala until age 40 and only to those who know all of nigle. While things such as gilgulim are part of Torah, the vast majority of us can live perfectly halachic, Torahdik and rational lives without delving into them.
LB – I think you once asked for reliable websites for Torah shiurim, and I listed a bunch, and it’s possible that this website was on the list.
I don’t remember if I qualified my recommendations or not, but just in case , I will do so now.
I can’t guarantee that every shiur on every website I listed is 100% fine (hey, I can’t even guarantee that everything I say in every shiur I give is 100% fine!). I am not even personally familiar with all the websites I listed.
But I think they were all websites that I had reasonable reason to believe were basically fine. And they seemed to be amongst the best ones out there (from my somewhat limited knowledge).
But that doesn’t mean that everything that every Rav or Rebbetzin says in every shiur on any of those websites is necessarily 100% emes.
I think it’s also important to point out that not everything is clear-cut in Judaism. There is room for different opinions. Of course sometimes, there is not. But other times there is. So it can be very confusing.
That’s why it’s good to find Rabbanim whom you can basically trust. Although outside of the Gedolei Hador, you shouldn’t blindly trust and accept every single thing that someone says. Unless it’s a clear-cut halachic matter.
But it will take time until you figure out who you can basically trust.
I still recommend that you check out Rav Leff’s website and listen to his shiurim if you haven’t already.
Many poskim will agree with you LB and call it avoda zara.
There are ayin hara people who reportedly did have rabbinic backing for what they do, and there is reference to it in sefarim.
There is no controversy however about the powers of personal prayer or giving tzedaka, so it is always safe to stick with these.
LB – This post of mine took a long time to get moderated (and m/w many posts below it were moderated), so you may not have seen it. It actually was written before the post after it which was moderated first. (in this case I don’t think the order mattered so much, but sometimes, the meaning of my posts gets a little bit lost when the posts are out of order).
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/regression-to-past-life#post-646850
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