There is a radically different approach in different Jewish circles related to mysticism, reincarnation, and other realms of the spiritual world. This even holds true in connection with Midrashic literature.

The traditional Lithuanian approach is to downplay all of these subjects. They are not necessarily dismissed as nonsense, but there is a strong attitude that one should not even begin to try to study or try to comprehend what they are saying. This the way I was taught in the........

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