Grandinite

. . . about the ancient death curse on Ariel Sharon. The last part is creepy.

From The Australian:

In a cemetery ceremony presided over by a rabbi, around 20 radicals held a “pulsa dinura“, or rod of fire in Aramaic, imploring God to curse a presumed sinner, said the online edition of the Yediot Aharonot newspaper.

The ancient Jewish rite was led by rabbi Yossef Dayan at dawn on Friday in the ancient cemetery of Rosh Pina, in the northern Galilee region.

Far-right Israeli activists held a “pulsa dinura” to pray for the death of former prime minister Rabin in 1995, a few days before he was killed by a Jewish extremist for trying to make peace with the Palestinians.

Rabbi Dayan read out the curse at that ritual too.

However, let’s look at the flip side of this. I like reading the stuff by Jerry Golden, a dude from Israel. Here is what he had to say, and although his words are almost as heated as the crowd over at the Calgary Muslim Forum, it presents the other side of the story, if you will.

From Jerry Golden.

Many Haredim in Israel and around the world have taken up the practice of Kabala, which came from Babylon (Iraq) it is mysticism and witchcraft, and from this type of evil practice brings into Judaism such activities as the pulsa demura. It is a huge embarrassment to those Jews who love God and the Torah and stand by God’s Holy Word. Just to think you have to use an evil source to understand the Holy Word of God is absolutely unbelievable. But such devices used by men are sure to lead many from God, into the hands of the Devil.