גלגול בדומם צומח חיStone, Leaf, Water, Beast

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Even the stone in the wall may be crying out.

Before Gehinnom, many souls are punished by being reincarnated in mineral, plant, animal or human form, because punishment must be felt in an embodied state. The Arizal would point out departed scholars lodged in a stone or plant. A slanderer becomes a mute stone (as Bilaam did, and Naval recalled it). One who fed Israel forbidden meat becomes a leaf tossed by wind until it falls. A murderer is in rushing water that keeps knocking him down, and an arrogant communal leader becomes a bee. A soul rises from stone to plant only in Av to Cheshvan, from plant to animal in Nisan to Tammuz, and from animal to human in Kislev to Adar, and it can skip levels when, for example, a person eats the plant it is in.

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