AFP/File – A dog walks on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza Strip.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago, Ynet website reported Friday. [That's what happens when you cross "The Chosen". - Dan]
According to Ynet, the large dog made its way into the Monetary Affairs Court in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, frightening judges and plaintiffs.
Despite attempts to drive the dog out of the court, the hound refused to leave the premises.
One of the sitting judges then recalled a curse the court had passed down upon a secular lawyer who had insulted the judges two decades previously.
Their preferred divine retribution was for the lawyer's spirit to move into the body of a dog, an animal considered impure by traditional Judaism.
Clearly still offended, one of the judges sentenced the animal to death by stoning by local children.
The canine target, however, managed to escape.
"Let the Animals Live", an animal-welfare organisation filed a complaint with the police against the head of the court, Rabbi Avraham Dov Levin, who denied that the judges had called for the dog's stoning, Ynet reported.
One of the court's managers, however, confirmed the report of the lapidation sentence to Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot.
"It was ordered... as an appropriate way to 'get back at' the spirit which entered the poor dog," the paper reported the manager as saying, according to Ynet.
Certain schools of thought within Judaism believe in the transmigration of souls, or reincarnation.
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Since it's only Tuesday, I thought we could all use a huge laugh! This one is funny enough to last the whole week! LMAO!
When Comrade Johann sent this to me, I was busting a gut!Dan 88!
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ReplyDeleteman goes to jail on purpose for medical treatment, could not afford health insurance.
It's time we take the profit motive out of our health care system before none of us (except the rich can afford it).
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ReplyDelete10,000 white nationalist marching in Greece.
can this ever happen in the USA?
Indeed we must get a new health care system. Hitler designed a sort of pay-as-you-go plan. If you were single, you paid less that say a man with a wife and kids. Completely fair and it worked.
ReplyDeleteAnd Greece may be a glimpse of what is to come here.