Mr. Spock, set phasers for "Pulsa Denura"
Posted on 07/26/2005 9:33:31 AM PDT by Alouette
Far-right activists instigated a pulsa denura - Aramaic for 'lashes of fire' - death curse against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last Thursday night in an effort to thwart the upcoming disengagement plan.
The ceremony was held late Thursday night at the gravesite of Shlomo Ben-Yosef, a Betar member who was hanged by the British in 1938 for firing on an Arab bus in protest of numerous attacks by Arabs on Jewish targets.
Twenty married men, including rabbis and kabalists, participated in the ceremony. All 20, including Yosef Dayan - who instigated the same curse several months prior to the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin - assembled at the gravesite, which is located near Safed.
Each man immersed himself in the mikve (ritual bath) before donning black garb and beginning to chant.
They had received permission to invoke the pulsa denura from a host of rabbis and kabalists, who said it was the appropriate time to resort to using the curse.
Far-right activist Michael Ben-Horin explained that the point of the curse was to exempt a human from having to kill Ariel Sharon, allowing "the angels of destructions" to do it instead.
Baruch Ben Yosef, a far-right activist who participated in the ceremony, told The Jerusalem Post that "The ten men prayed to god for him to rid us of the evil murderous dictator [Sharon].
Ben Yosef said that the gravesite was chosen because, "Shlomo was the antithesis of a Sharon."
"Ben Yosef gave his life for the Jewish people and refused to recognize the British government, while Sharon does everything for himself," Ben Yosef declared.
Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz has decided in the past not to launch criminal investigations into rabbis who have instigated the death curse.
Mazuz's decision was based on a previous court ruling in the matter of Avigdor Askin, in which it was decided that the pulsa denura curse ceremony does not constitute a criminal offense.
Nevertheless, the phrase Arik Melech Yisrael! now takes on a newer, less-complimentary connotation. And remember that Sharon had a Russian mother.
Today I am tending toward mad.
I see two possibilities: one, that Sharon is reacting to an internationalist/globalist threat to comply or be treated as Saddam's Iraq was, without the possibility of support from the USA. Under such pressure, Sharon's actions may be understandable if not forgivable.
The other possibility might be an intention to let the Palistinians have their *homeland* safe havens, from which an atrocious attack on Israel will eventually follow, thence to be met with a full invasion by the Israeli military and permanent annexation of the territories from which the attacks were launched as a war gain by the State of Israel. That might have some justification in terms of world opinion, but the U.N. is so corrupt that any proceedings there are probably moot, and the globalist dominated world media will never show Israel in any positive light.
wow, you gave me the shivers...
I believe the Vietnamese Cao Dai variation of Roman Catholicism was considered by Rome to not be heretical, despite the Asian influences of ancestor worship and the interesting beatification of Victor Hugo as a saint by Cao Dai adherents, as well as their belief that that the God of Christians and Jews is also the Supreme Being of the Buddhists, and the Brahmnan of the Hindu.
If that doesn't quite include the vodun/voodoo practices of human sacrifice, it's at least balanced by at least some influences of Asian animism and nits. And if Rome hasn't yet accepted West African influences into their theology, there's an awful wide ground between Russian Orthodoxy and Cao Daism, and I wouldn't take any bets as to what might be accepted next.
Okay, I can agree with that, but what happens in 20 years? They won't be happy until you're all floating around in house boats. : (
Yup, takes one to know one.
"And remember that Sharon had a Russian mother."
Referencing what, Gog?
Indeed. Enough with this monkeying around...
Isn't that the supposed origin of the Kennedy curse?
On a trip back to the United States, aboard an ocean liner that was also carrying Israel Jacobson, a poor Lubavitcher rabbi, and six of his yeshiva students, who were fleeing the Nazis, [Joseph] Kennedy complained to the ship's captain about the distracting noises caused by the Jewish passengers praying on the high holy days of Rosh Hashanah, demanding that they be forbidden to continue exercises so distracting to fellow passengers. "Rabbi Jacobson put a curse on Kennedy, damning him and all his male offspring to tragic fates."
Jews are not rock worshippers .Those would be muslims worshipping in Mecca.
Did the Secret Service get to have a chat with Randi Rhodes, Janeane Garofalo and Al Franken? Why are they still on the air?
Calling on the God of Israel to strike dead the leader who stopped 85% of the terror attacks on Israelis is a** backwards.
"He is neither a coward nor an appeaser."
BTTT
"Calling on the God of Israel to strike dead the leader who stopped 85% of the terror attacks on Israelis is a** backwards."
They're not calling for Sharon to be struck dead. They are calling for immediate judgment from God, upon a man that cannot be reached by the judgment of the people, and if the judgment of God removes Sharon, who has put himself in opposition by going along with this concession, dividing the land, then so be it, whether he dies, or is otherwise taken out of the affairs of Israel.
In their belief, if Sharon is judged righteous, then the petitioner will face judgment himself. It's not something that would be undertaken lightly.
Try to imagine yourself in this position for a second... is there anything in this life, that you feel fervently enough about, as to lay your own life on the line, if you're wrong? Would you entreat God to intervene, if you knew how, even if the price of being incorrect would be your own life? In their minds, this is what they're doing.
Many on this thread think it's all nuttiness, as is their right. But, what amazes me is all the people who seem to relish mocking the power of their own God. This, to me, seems nuttier... lacking faith to understand the fervor, and resorting to mockery of something they should understand, but do not or will not.
I can't pretend to understand fully, but I respect how completely these men have given themselves over to their faith. It is of no threat to me, and if they really are mere nutcases, it is of no threat to you or anyone else, either. Is it inflammatory? Everything any Jew does is inflammatory to a certain mindset. Any Christian, too, for that matter.
"They are calling for immediate judgment from God"
They are calling for the judgment of Death. Not even removal from power to thwart his actions but Death as punishment.
Under Jewish law very few transgressions deserve that punishment. My point is PM Sharon certainly doesn't.
Why don't they bring their curse on Abbas? Arafat in his day? Jews who hate Jews are a danger to Israel and the Jewish people whether they are on the left or the right.
The destruction of the Temple was caused by hatred of one Jew for another. The commemoration by fast of that destruction is on August 14. This is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. Not much has changed since ancient times.
"They are calling for the judgment of Death"
If they're wrong, that will be their own judgment.
"This is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar."
I'm still working on grasping that calendar. To my understanding, sunset of August 13 through sunset of August 14 will be Tisha B'Av for our year 2005. Is this correct?
We're talking about people who are basically secular, don't believe in G-d, don't believe in the bible, and suddenly they're up in arms over some kabbalistic rain dance ritual? Why don't they just laugh this one off?
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