A variant spelling or dialectal form referring to the concept of reincarnation in Jewish tradition, less common than gilgul.
Alternative romanization of Hebrew gilgul, reflecting different transliteration preferences from Hebrew to English. This variant appears in some English-language Jewish texts and represents one of several ways scholars have historically rendered the Hebrew term.
The multiple spellings of Hebrew words in English (gilgul, gilguy, gilguylim) show how language experts had to invent spelling rules when translating from right-to-left Hebrew into left-to-right English—there was no 'correct' way!
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