.

_Caphtor Upherach_, fol. 51, col. 2.

It sometimes happens that one sacrifices an animal with a human soul in
it. And this is the mystic meaning of (Ps. xxxvi. 6), "O Lord, thou
preservest man and beast." It is for this reason that we are commanded
to have our slaughtering-knife without defect, for who knows if there be
not a transmigrated soul in the animal? ... Therefore the slaughter must
needs be delicately done and the mode critically examined, on account of
that which is written (Lev. xix. 18), "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself."

_Nishmath Chaim_, chap. 13, no. 4.

At each of the three meals of the Sabbath one should eat fish, for into
them the souls of the righteous are transmigrated. And in relation to
them it is written (Num. xi. 22), "All the fish of the sea shall be
gathered together for them."

_Yalkut Chadash_, fol. 20, col. 4, no. 9.

The soul of a slanderer is transmigrated into a silent stone.

_Emeh Hamelech_, fol. 153, col. 2.

Rabbi Isaac Luria was once passing the great academy of Rabbi Yochanan
in Tiberias, where he showed his disciples a stone in the wall,
remarking, "In this stone there is a transmigrated soul, and it cries
that I should pray on its behalf. And this is the mystic meaning of
(Hab. ii. 11), 'The stone shall cry out of the wall.'"

Ibid., fol. 11, col. 2.

The murderer is transmigrated into water. The mystical sign of this is
indicated in (Deut. xii. 16), "Ye shall pour it upon the earth as
water;" and the meaning is, he is continually rolling on and on without
any rest. Therefore let no man drink (direct) from a running tap or
spout, but from the hollow of his hands, lest a soul pass into him, and
that the soul of a wicked sinner.

Ibid., fol. 153, cols. 1, 2.

One who sins with a married woman is, after undergoing the penalty of
wandering about as a fugitive and vagabond, transmigrated, together with
his accomplice, into the millstone of a water-mill, according to the
mystery of (Job xxxi. 10), "Let my wife grind unto another."

_Emeh Hamelech_, fol. 153, cols. 1, 2.

A butcher who kills an animal with a defective knife will die of the
plague, and his soul will pass into a dog, whom he thus deprives of what
belongs to him; for it is said (Exod. xxii. 31), "Ye shall cast it to
the dogs."

_Kitzur Sh'lh_, fol. 17, col. 2.

An animal slaughtered with an improper knife is considered as if
it had been "torn of beasts in the field," and the flesh o