Tuesday, November 07, 2006

ANOTHER PULSA DE-NURA CURSE is threatened:
Rabbis to curse parade organizers
By MATTHEW WAGNER (Jerusalem Post)

A Jewish invocation will be used by ultra Orthodox rabbis in Jerusalem to curse the organizers of the Gay Pride March and the police who protect them, said a spokesman for the Edah Haredit Monday.

In a ceremony known as "Pulsa D'nura" (blows of fire), rabbis of the anti-Zionist Edah Haredit rabbinic court will convene sometime before the march, which is scheduled for Friday, to conduct the kabbalistic ceremony which is believed to unleash unearthly powers against specified sinners.

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It isn't a kabbalistic ceremony; it's only about a century old. For some background, see here and here. (The Philologos link seems to have rotted. Sorry.) And there are lots more PaleoJudaica posts on this ceremony. Just run the search term "pulsa" through the search engine on the right to find them.

It's interesting from a sociological perspective, but I think it's in poor taste.

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