"Perform the commandment of the
Phylacteries, and I will account it as if you were occupied
night and day in the study of the law."

Anyhow, all the precepts are being observed by all Israel taken
together, viz, the priests observe their part, the Levites theirs, and
the Israelites theirs; thus the whole keep all. For the Holy
One--blessed be He!--has written a law for His faithful servants, the
nation of Israel, and as a nation they keep the whole law. It is as once
when a king wrote to his subjects thus, "Behold, I command you to
prepare for war against the enemy; raise the walls higher, collect arms,
and store up victuals;" and those that were builders looked after the
walls, the armorers after the weapons, the farmers after the stores of
food, etc., etc. Each, according to his ability, did all that was
required of him, and all unitedly fulfilled the king's command.

_Kitzur Sh'lu_, p. 6, col. 2.

He who neglects to observe any of the 613 precepts, such as were
possible for him to observe, is doomed to undergo transmigration (once
or more than once) till he has actually observed all he had neglected to
do in a former state of being.

Ibid.

The sages of truth (the Kabbalists) remark that Adam contains the
initial letters of Adam, David, and Messiah; for after Adam sinned his
soul passed into David, and the latter having also sinned, it passed
into the Messiah. The full text is, "They shall serve the Lord their
God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them" (Jer. xxx. 9);
and it is written, "My servant David shall be their king forever" (Ezek.
xxxvii. 25); and thus "They shall seek the Lord their God, and David
their king" (Hosea iii. 5).

_Nishmath Chaim_, fol. 152, col. 2.

Know thou that Cain's essential soul passed into Jethro, but his spirit
into Korah, and his animal soul into the Egyptian. This is what
Scripture saith, "Cain shall be avenged sevenfold" (Gen. iv. 24), i.e.,
the initial letters of the Hebrew word rendered "shall be avenged," form
the initials of Jethro, Korah, and Egyptian.... Samson the hero was
possessed by the soul of Japhet, and Job by that of Terah.

_Yalkut Reubeni_, Nos. 9, 18, 24.

Cain had robbed the twin sister of Abel, and therefore his soul passed
into Jethro. Moses was possessed by the soul of Abel, and therefore
Jethro gave his daughter to Moses.

_Yalkut Chadash_, fol. 127, col. 3.

If a man be niggardly either in a financial or a spiritual regard,