| Israeli rabbi threatens Sharon with Kabbalah On the eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah (New Year according to the Jewish calendar), Rabbi Yosef Dayan from the settlement of Psagot, located near the Palestinian city of Ramallah, threatened Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a curse ceremony ("pulse de Nura"). Radical religious Israelis are dissatisfied with the prime minister's plans to unilaterally secede from the Palestinians and withdraw Jewish settlements from the Palestinian Gaza Strip, for starters. Israeli secession officials from the Palestinian Authority, including the secession official, Jonathan Bassi, have already received several threats of attack.
During the rite of "puls de-nura", according to the mystical Jewish doctrine of Kaballah, the rabbi calls the Almighty and asks Him to bring judgment on the one who calls the Lord and on the recipient of the curse. The angel of death descends into the world and kills the one of the two who is more sinful before the Lord. That is, if the ritual is completed, either Rabbi Yosef Dayan himself or Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will die. As Rabbi Eliyahu Essas explains, the “pulse de nura” is the wrath of heaven, a reaction to disorder and lies on earth. Sometimes teachers of Kabbalism can focus the state of supreme wrath (which, like mercy, is constantly present in heaven) on the spiritual imprint of a particular person. As a result, the person with whom the Almighty is angry dies ingloriously.
As Rabbi Avraham Shmulevich told Vremya Novostei correspondents, the curse of the “pulsa de-nur” is “completely legal.” In fact, any witchcraft is prohibited in Judaism, but in this case they ask for the judgment of the Almighty and the punishment of the unworthy. Commenting on Yosef Dayan's intentions, Rabbi Shmulevich noted: "It is impossible to separate religion from politics here, because Sharon's policies negatively affect the fate of the Jews."
Rabbi Yosef Dayan took part in the curse ceremony of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Shortly thereafter, Rabin was assassinated by right-wing Israeli extremist Yigal Amir. In the past, Yosef Dayan ran for the Knesset from the now banned right-wing religious movement KAH. As Dayan stated in a television interview, “if any of the young people express a desire to kill Prime Minister Sharon and apply for a blessing,” he is ready to hold a “pulse de Nura” ceremony, which implies the death of the person being cursed. "Now we are forbidden to speak, forbidden to pray, forbidden to think, forbidden to feel. The head of the Shin Bet (Israel's General Security Service - Ed. ) Avi Dichter says that there are people who want the death of the Prime Minister. Yes! There are such people. I am among them,” says the Kabbalist rabbi.
However, according to the press secretary of the local council of the settlement of Psagot, “the words of Rabbi Yosef Dayan are his personal point of view; the rabbi does not reflect the position of the leadership of the village and the majority of its residents.”
Israeli police have already demanded a videotape of Yosef Dayan's speech from an Israeli television channel in order to decide whether his words fall under the criminal article of "incitement to murder." Just in case, security has been strengthened at government institutions, the residence of the head of government, the territory adjacent to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and other objects that Jewish and Palestinian extremists choose as targets for terrorist attacks. Dmitry DUBOV, Maria GRISHINA, Jerusalem |
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