Moses was born circumcised (Shemot)

Moses was born already circumcised. Since he was Jewish already from birth, he refused the milk of Egyptian women. When the daughter of Pharaoh found him, she had to find a wet nurse for a three-month-old baby, and this is when she tried the Egyptian wet nurses without success.

Where is that in the Torah? The sister of Moses, Miriam, said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse him?" The first letters of her words spell "He is circumcised."

מִן הָעִבְרִיֹּת; וְתֵינִק לָךְ - "from the Hebrew women, to nurse him for you."

First letters:

מהול - circumcised

When Moses's mother first looked at him, "she saw that he was good." That is because the foreskin is called "bad," and Moses was "good," that is, circumcised. 

Art: Moses in the Bullrushes by Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau

The child of yibum with brother's widow is his reincarnation (Vayeshev)

Tamar succeeded in making Judah sleep with her. This way, Judah performed a "yibum," also known as "marrying brother's widow." Previously, Judah's son Onan did a "yibum" with Tamar, his brother's Er widow. Judah's act with Tamar could qualify, by stretch, as a "yibum."

The secret of yibum is that the child born of such a union is a reincarnation of the brother who passed away. This worked. Tamar had twins, and they were reincarnations of her two previous husbands. In their new lives, they corrected their previous mistakes.

The midwife marked the firstborn by tying a red thread on his hand - because their previous mistake involved hands. Zerah, who is the reincarnation of Onan, gave his hand first. He felt that he was not as bad as Er because he at least had a reason, not wanting to have a child in this brother's name. Still, he got a thread whose color was red - because he was not wholly blameless.

Art: Judah and Tamar by Arent de Gelder

Dinah Was a Boy at First (Vayishlach)

After six sons, Leah knew that she was pregnant with another boy. She would then have a disproportionate number of boys, seven out of twelve. So Leah judged that it would not be fair and prayed that the child's gender would be changed to a girl. That is why the baby's name was "Dinah" which means "Judgement." Dinah is called "naar," which means a boy, but when the Torah is read in the synagogue, this word is pronounced "naarah," which means a girl.

Since it was Leah who caused Dinah to be born a girl, Dinah is called Leah's daughter, "And Dinah, Leah's daughter, went out."

Dinah was the reincarnation of Eve. Dinah's abductor, Shechem ben Chamor the Hivite, was the reincarnation of the initial Snake. The word "Hivite" means a snake in Aramaic. Since he has injected poison into Eve, his only desire was to stay connected to her, this time as Dinah. After Shechem was circumcised, his correction in life was complete, and he was killed, having nothing left to do.

Art: Jacob persuades Leah and Rachel to flee by Pieter Potter

And he lay with her that night (Vayetze)

"And Yakov slept with Leah that night... and Issachar was born."

Issachar studied Torah more than any other of the twelve sons of Yakov. So, Issachar represents the essence of Yakov. It says "that night" and not "on that night." In Hebrew, it is "ba laila who" and not "ba laila hawho." The word "that" applies to the man (Issachar) and not the night. 

Later, Issachar was reincarnated as Rabbi Akiva. When the brothers sold Yosef, and the time came to atone for that, Rabbi Akiva was the leading sage of the ten sages martyred to perform this atonement. The connection to Issachar is in the words of Rabbi Akiva.

Now, we can establish other connections. Adam had two wives: Lilith and Eve. Adam's reincarnation, Yakov, also had two wives, Leah and Rachel. Yakov's reincarnation, Rabbi Akiva, also had two wives: the former wife of Turneius Rufus and his first wife, Rachel. The wives are also connected through reincarnations.

Art: Joseph sold by his brothers by Balthasar Beschey

Why Did Rebecca Tell Jacob to Deceive Isaac? (Toldot)

Rebecca was a reincarnation of Eve, and Jacob, her son, was a reincarnation of Adam. Now, the two, Adam and Eve, meet again. In this new situation, Rebecca tells Jacob not to worry about deceiving Isaac. If he curses you, the "curse is on me."

She says, before, when I was Eve, I was the reason for your curse. Now, I will help you remove the curse. Before, you were cursed because you "listened to your wife's voice." Now, just the opposite, you have to listen to me, but this time for the right reason.

Further, before, you made a mistake connected to food. Now, you are doing to correct that mistake, also with food. You will feed it to Isaac so that he blesses you. 

Original Adam's clothing fell into the hands of Nimrod and later into the hands of Esau. Esau stored it with Rebecca. Now, she gave them back to Jacob. That is why Isaac smelled Paradise in them when he said, "The smell of my son is like that of God's field."

Art: Isaac Blesses Jacob by Govert Flinck

Marriages are from God (Chayei Sarah)

"Laban and Bethuel said this came from God; we can say nothing one way or another." From here, we deduce that every marriage is from God.

But can we really make this deduction from the words of Laban and Bethuel, who were not exceedingly righteous? One view is that the words "this thing is from God" were said by Heavenly voice, which interjected, and then Laban and Bethuel continued. 

Another explanation is that "this thing came" means that it came from Mount Moriah. Yitchak had a female nature, and as such, he could not have a proper couple. On Mound Moriah, his soul left; then it came back as a male. That is why initially it says, "And to Sarah, there was a son," but now it is, "and she (Rivka) will be a wife to the son or your master."

Art: Sleeping Woman in a Blue Dress by Somov

Daughter is a Blessing (Chayei Sarah)

When Abraham was old, God blessed him with everything. That was a daughter. In Hebrew, "with everything" is spelled "Bakol," and that was the name of the daughter, Bakol.

The gematria of Bakol is 52. 

בכל = 2 + 20 + 30 = 52

This represents the name of God spelled with Hey

יהוה

יוד הה וו הה = 52

Thus, in a mystical sense, this name of God is the daughter of Abraham.

Art: Portrait of Princess by Peter Paul Rubens

The Reasons of Job's Suffering (Lech-Lecha)

Abraham's father was called Terah. Terah reported his son Abraham to authorities for iconoclastic behavior and disrespecting the gods. The king Nimrod had a philosophical debate with Abraham, as a result of which Abraham was sentenced to be burned alive. Abraham was saved by a miracle, but his brother Haran was thrown into the same furnace, and he burned. That is why the Torah said that "Haran died in the presence of his father."

Terah had to be reincarnated to correct his and his father's mistakes. He came back as Job. The hint to this in the Torah is "God appeared to Abraham in the Valley," in Hebrew, "Vayera elav Adonai Be'elonei." The first letters form Job (Iyov.)

The last words of the book of Job, "Therefore, I renounce my words and relent, for I am but dust and ashes." He means, "I relent because of that one who called himself dust and ashes – Abraham."

Abraham was told that his father already started his reincarnation. "Abraham was told that Milcah has given birth to Uz," and Uz is another name for Job, who was from the land of Uz.

Art: Job by William Blake

Breshit - In the Beginning

The Torah starts with the letter bet, the second letter of the alphabet. Why not the first one, alef?

The Torah, as the area of knowledge, has two levels: secret and plain. The secret level speaks exclusively of theoretical and philosophical ideas. Our Torah, which starts with the letter bet, clothes the theory into practical notions concerning this world. 

The first Torah, which starts with the letter alef, is what the Righteous learn in Gan Eden, Paradise. 

Our "second" Torah, which starts with the letter bet, anticipates the last letter. The last word of the Torah is "Israel," and the last letter of the Torah is thus "L." Together with the first letter, it forms "LeV." Lev has the numerical value (Gematria) of 32, L being 30, and B being 2. These are the thirty-two paths of wisdom discussed in the mystical book of Sefer Yetzirah. 

Art: Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, by Mark Rothko

Mishpatim - four types of evil damaging forces

Four types of damages are mentioned in Mishpatim: the ox, the pit, the man, and the fire. They are discussed in the Talmud here.

And yet, why four? We could have grouped them as one damager. These four correspond to four evil damaging spiritual forces. And since creation uses symmetry, they correspond to powerful good forces. They are Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David.

Isaac represents strength; this is the ox on the left side of the Throne of Glory.

Abraham is a "pit of clear live water" with his teachings.

Fire is David, who is a fighting king. And the "man" is Jacob, representing beauty, whose face also was on the Throne of Glory.

How do we know that Moses was reincarnated as Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai?

When Moses went to Mount Sinai to get the Torah, it is described as

 עָלִיתָ לַמָּרוֹם, שָׁבִיתָ שֶּׁבִי

You went up and captured a captive

שֶּׁבִי 

is Shimon Bar Yochai

Moses captured the soul of Shimon bat Yochai for his future incarnation.

Art: Moses with the Ten Commandments by Philippe de Champaigne