By Anon
Elsagene and Tikvah
A young girl called Elsagene McCormick was found dead in the bathroom of the boarding house where she lived with her mother, whose name was Etta.
Etta helped run a brothel.
Elsagene died in 1938.
Elsagene’s autopsy findings are consistent with her having been strangled.
Elsie
Living near Etta were Etta’s brother, Eugene, and his wife, Elsie.
When Elsie’s sister died, Elsie brought up her sister’s child, who was a teenager called Ruth.
Elsagene pleaded unsuccessfully to be able to stay with the teenage Ruth.
Elsagene begged her, “Please, let me stay with you. Why can’t you be my mother?”
Ruth later had a daughter called Tikvah.
Tikvah and Ruth both believe that Tikvah is a reincarnation of Elsagene.
How do we explain the apparent unfairness in life – the long prosperous life of the tyrant and the short life of the unhappy child?
Elsagene McCormick and Tikvah Dobsch
Many of the early Christians believed in Reincarnation
Some people thought that Jesus was Elijah (Matt 16:13).
Jesus said that Elijah would reincarnate (Matthew 17:11).
In John 9:2 the apostles asked Jesus whether the man blind from birth was blind due to his previous sinning.
We reap what we sow.
Pittsburgh
Tikvah Dobsch, who became Tikvah Feinstein, was born Tikvah Dobsch in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1944.
Her parents were Ruth and Rudolph Dobsch, who were both raised as Christians.
Rudolph had emigrated from Sudeten, on the German border with Czechoslovakia as a youth. He worked in the steel mills.
Ruth was born in the USA.
Ruth converted to Judaism and her daughter Tikvah was raised Jewish.
Tikvah writes:
“As a child, I could not bear having anything around my throat, especially anything that was tied like a scarf…
“I had terrifying nightmares … about being held down … In the dream, my mouth is clamped shut…
“I feared dying young…
“In 1950, while getting me ready for my first grade photo … my mother shared a story regarding a girl who died 6 years before I was born…
“The girl, Elsagene, my mother continued, was found dead one evening in the bathroom of the boarding house where she lived with her mother, whose name was Etta. The door was locked…”
Elsagene and Tikvah
Tikvah writes:
“My mother then shared that she thought that I was Elsagene reborn.
“To hear this story so young I was shocked, and at five or six years of age too immature to understand…
“Sometimes the nightmares began as a dream that suddenly became terrifying, always with a similar theme.
“In the dream, there is an attack, a struggle, and following a piercing injury, a spirit body is released, symbolizing death.
“I believe our spirits survive death. This belief is supported by an experience of a cardiac arrest in 2007, when I retained consciousness from above the chaos as the paramedics worked on my body…
Tikvah writes:
“In 2011, I began writing a memoir of my life…”
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