Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Reincarnation Before Mashaich: The Return of Holocaust Souls

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff - video under 2 mins


12 comments:

  1. AAugust 5, 2026 at 1:59 PM

    Somehow I can resonate with this
    When I was 7 years old, every night for a few nights in a row, the would either dream this or actually look out the window at night and “see” it take place in the stars.

    Standing off to the corner of these very tall steps would see people running and being chased by bad people that were burning this tall building with tall steps. Have had thought of this thru the years and wondered its significance. It’s been well over 60 years ago… and wondered if it had to do with the Temple destruction? If I ever found out being a Jew… it would be the most glorious moment of my life.

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  2. DevorahAugust 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM

    I read this book many years ago
    https://www.amazon.com.au/Beyond-Ashes-Cases-Reincarnation-Holocaust/dp/0876042930
    I lent it to a friend and never got it back..... typical....
    anyway, you may be interested in it and there are quite a few other books along the same lines.
    I have friends who converted to Judaism, one of them remembered growing up in New Zealand in a xtian household, she dreamt that the Nazis were chasing here but she didn't know what Nazis were.... anyway she's been Jewish for a long time now. Because there were hardly any Jewish families remaining after the Holocaust, Jewish souls had to come down into non Jewish families and convert. Many people have done this.

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  3. DevorahAugust 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM

    Also, there are two Jewish dentists here, both of whom remember each other from the Holocaust. Of course, they were killed in the Holocaust and both were re-born again, both became dentists again, and the book I mentioned above jogged their memories. Both of them cried after they read that book.

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  4. DevorahAugust 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM

    I have my own story. When I was younger, I went to see a movie called Sophie's Choice. You probably know the movie, starring Meryl Streep. There is a particular scene where she has to make her "choice".... which child to give up to the Nazis. I started to cry hysterically and had to leave the theatre, and go outside. I couldn't take it, I felt that I was one of those children, or the mother herself. I was very young when I saw that movie and I have never gotten over it.

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  5. AAugust 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM

    The dream or whatever it was that I saw stays with me too… terrible horrible people chasing people and killing them… and only after learning about the religion I was I. And started following Jewish teaching is when I related it might have even been the Temple being destroyed that I saw… it was very surreal also. Will try to find the book and read it… one of my sisters is on the same journey

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  6. AnonymousAugust 5, 2026 at 3:50 PM

    I have the book by Sara Yocheved rigler it’s about pple who dreamt they were in the concentration camps It’s fascinating! But the pple who converted in this lifetime figured out that they were Jewish in a past life and regretted being killed cuz they were Jewish so they had to come back and do teshuva by converting.
    Other stories is about a non Jew who saved Jewish children and was given a reward of a bracha to come back as a Jew The book is really amazing ! One story was this lady who was told stuff by the Lubavitcher rebbe who calmed her down. He came to her in a vision a few times after he passed away. malky

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  7. לאהAugust 6, 2026 at 12:08 AM

    I'm definitely one!!
    As are most of the geirim, I suspect.
    I forget who said it, but after the Shoah there were not enough physical bodies to replenish the neshamos that had to come down, so certainly they had to be born of goyish parentage.
    -leah

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    1. AnonymousAugust 6, 2026 at 11:59 PM

      Hi I doubt this is the reason not enough physical bodies. Hashem can make more of anything There r special complex reasons pple come down here to convert. Past lives r complicated and most of the time a big mystery. Malky

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    2. DevorahAugust 7, 2026 at 5:07 AM

      Malky.... it's a fact, after the Holocaust there were hardly any Jews left at all. Jewish souls came down to the world into non-Jewish families because there was no other choice. It doesn't matter if you doubt it, it's still true. Just think about it and realize that millions of Jews had been murdered by the Nazis. There weren't too many left. So Jewish souls had to be born into other families. It makes sense.

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  8. AnonymousAugust 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM

    One must be very careful with the subject of gilgulim, the likes of the Arizal or Baal shem tov where capable of saying whats what who is from where, we dont have that today, we can only speculate, but to say that a person who died kidush hashem and in the holocaust especially has to or wants to come down, when many sources say, the neshomas abode is up there and especially a kodash neshoma is in such a high place its not right to theorise.

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    1. DevorahAugust 7, 2026 at 5:04 AM

      But a soul has many parts, and it's possible that part of the soul came down again to live another life. I'm sure you know more than I do academically, because that's not difficult to know more than I do.... so I respect what you're saying.
      How then do you explain the memories that children have, such as the woman who dreamt that the Nazis were chasing her, and she didn't even know what Nazis were... and the two dentists who remembered each other from the holocaust, and the countless other stories that have been written about people with these memories? They are not just imagining them.... a child doesn't imagine something, children remember things from past lives.
      There are so many people in my own community who read the book "Ashes from the Holocaust" by Rabbi Gershom and identified with what he said there.
      They are all educated people, not meshuggenas, they were excited to read the book and it was passed around to everyone, they couldn't wait to get their hands on it.
      So something doesn't add up.... and yes if die al Kiddush Hashem you go to the highest place, but maybe part of the soul wants or needs to come back down here for a reason. We don't know. We only have our memories that are with us for our lifetime.

      I personally know of tzadikim who died al Kiddush Hashem, and they have multiple grandchildren named after them.... and guess what..... all of the children who share the same name have something in common. It's bizarre. You can see a part of the soul that belonged to the tzadik who passed. A part that needed rectification. I have seen it with my own eyes, it's not something I learnt, it's something I see.

      And Torah says that if you name a child after someone, they have a part of that person's soul. I was named after the original Devorah, for example, Devorah haNevia.... but every Devorah has a part of the original Devorah... same goes for every Yaakov, every Avraham. The name Avraham is associated with kindness, so if you meet an Avraham he's probably very kind - although the opposite can happen as well, and maybe his lesson in life is to LEARN how to be kind, and that's why he's an Avraham.

      So, the answer is not so simple. It's a mystery. But memories are memories, and for a lot of people who didn't understand where these memories came from... when they read the book it all made sense again.

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  9. AnonymousAugust 7, 2026 at 1:13 AM

    Me, too!

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