Monday, September 18, 2006
Man inhabits dog?
A stray dog which refused to budge from the home of a recently deceased rabbi has finally moved on after a "redemption ceremony" at an Israeli cemetery.
The dog, pictured in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Monday, showed up at the house of the late Rabbi Nahman Dubinky.
Rabbis expert in Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, concluded the animal could be possessed by a tortured soul seeking redemption. Ultra-Orthodox Jews traditionally do not keep dogs as pets.
"Sometimes the souls of sinners, such as adulterers or people who slept with non-Jews, enter the body of a dog," Rabbi Yitzhak Basri, a Kabbalah scholar, told Israel Radio.
"It is known that when a righteous man dies, the souls of people in need of redemption come to him so they can be healed as a result of his death."
Basri said Rabbi Dubinky's family, along with a quorum of 10 mourners, carried out a "redemption ceremony" at a cemetery on Jerusalem`s Mount of Olives.
"Afterwards, the dog did indeed leave the house," he said.
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=323558&ssid=68&sid=LIF
A stray dog which refused to budge from the home of a recently deceased rabbi has finally moved on after a "redemption ceremony" at an Israeli cemetery.
The dog, pictured in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Monday, showed up at the house of the late Rabbi Nahman Dubinky.
Rabbis expert in Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, concluded the animal could be possessed by a tortured soul seeking redemption. Ultra-Orthodox Jews traditionally do not keep dogs as pets.
"Sometimes the souls of sinners, such as adulterers or people who slept with non-Jews, enter the body of a dog," Rabbi Yitzhak Basri, a Kabbalah scholar, told Israel Radio.
"It is known that when a righteous man dies, the souls of people in need of redemption come to him so they can be healed as a result of his death."
Basri said Rabbi Dubinky's family, along with a quorum of 10 mourners, carried out a "redemption ceremony" at a cemetery on Jerusalem`s Mount of Olives.
"Afterwards, the dog did indeed leave the house," he said.
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=323558&ssid=68&sid=LIF
Comments:
When I lived in Monsey, I had a trombenik of a dog that ran loose all over the town. One day, I got a call from a non Jewish neighbor. She had a chicken (treif)defrosting on her deck and the dog grabbed it and ate it raw. Perhaps it was the spirit of rusty that turned up at the house seeking redemption.
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