TSI, being born again, or not...

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Tim, waiting to be released-

       ...sat curled in an old washing machine that
       lay on its in a back room of the house (p.141)

Gershom Scholem quoting a tidbit of Kabbalah commentary-
(On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead, p.217)

       Know that the soul is never reincarnated alone...
       for the middling person (beinoni), whose body
       has performed many commandments, his 
       situation is thus: sparks of his soul remain
       behind [i.e., in Paradise] in accordance with the
       commandments he has performed; but the other
       parts enter into transmigration. This portion of his
       soul then comes mixed with the soul of a different
       reincarnate, who is in the same situation as he, or
       with [several] transmigrating souls... But then
       they  do not enter [the new body] by themselves,
       but with a new soul. And this is what is meant by
       the verse "All these things doth God work, twice,
       yea thrice, with a man" [Job 33:29]- that is, two
       or three souls at once in one soul. But it must be
       "with a man"- that is, with a new soul that has not
       yet sinned. But more than three  cannot come
       together, as is said: "For three transgressions of
       Israel, Yea, for four, I will not reverse it" [Amos 2:6]

Tim-                    

       ...ran out into the rain past two wet lilac bushes,
       down a slope into long grass turned to hay, his
       sneakers soaked after only a couple-three steps. (p. 147).

Mrs. Tim-

      "Oh, you," she said, beginning to smile, except for her eyes.
       (p.147)

Play List add: "She Said, She Said"

       She said I know what it's like to be dead
        know what it is to be sad
       And she's making me feel like I've never been born.

       I said "Who put all those things in your hair
       Things that make me feel that I'm mad
       And you're making me feel like I've never been born."

       She said "you don't understand what I said"
       I said "No, no, no, you're wrong"
       When I was a boy everything was right
       Everything was right

       I said "Even though you know what you know
       I know that I'm ready to leave
'      Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

       She said "you don't understand what I said"
       I said "No, no, no, you're wrong"
       When I was a boy everything was right
       Everything was right

       I said "Even though you know what you know
       I know that I'm ready to leave
       'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

       She said I know what it's like to be dead
       I know what it is to be sad...   

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