Posted on 06/18/2011 4:38:26 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad
A Jewish rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a stray dog it feared was the reincarnation of a lawyer who insulted its judges, reports say.
The dog entered the Jerusalem financial court several weeks ago and would not leave, reports Israeli website Ynet.
It reminded a judge of a curse passed on a now deceased secular lawyer about 20 years ago, when judges bid his spirit to enter the body of a dog.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
“The animal is said to have escaped before the sentence was carried out.”
Maybe it was Houdini.
According to the article in ynet news.com, an unnamed court manager “confirmed the report to Yedioth Ahronoth”.
The report says:
“It was ordered by the rabbis because of the grief he had caused the court,” he said. “They didn’t issue an official ruling, but ordered the children outside to throw stones at him in order to drive him away. They didn’t think of it as cruelty to animals, but as an appropriate way to ‘get back at’ the spirit which entered the poor dog.”
“Jerusalem City Council Member and social activist Rachel Azaria sent an urgent letter to the attorney general, calling on him to “deal with the criminals”. The Let the Animals Live organization filed a complaint with the police against Rabbi Levin.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4082843,00.html
The article also said dogs are “considered an impure animal by Halacha”.
I was in Israel last week and can attest secular Jews love dogs. Orthodox and ultra-orthodox Jews are very unlikely to have pets.
Do Jewish people believe in reincarnation?
This is a BBC blood libel.
Israel has vigorous animal protection laws.
Dogs are not considered impure in Judaism. In Hebrew they are called Kelev which translates to -— All Heart.
The BBC just hates the “ultra orthodox.”
“It might be a hoax. It sounds too stupid to be true.”
Could be. But then, have you ever watched TrueTV’s World’s Dummest ..... ? That is stupidity at it’s finest. lol
Well well well.
http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2011/06/maariv-apologizes-about-misleading.html
Waiting for the BBC to apologize...
*crickets*
“Waiting for the BBC to apologize...”
“Today, the Maariv newspaper ran a “clarification” and apology about that story, saying the rav had said there is no basis for abusing the dog, not halachically and not logically. The rav had also said that city hall had sent their dog catcher to collect the dog from the premises of the beis din. The newspaper apologizes for the misleading headlines from when it was reported.”
Actually, this doesn’t say that most of the original story isn’t true. It says that the rav said there’s no basis for abusing the dog and a dog cathcher was called for.
Not sure how much of an apology you’ll get on that “clarification”
This sounds like rubbish. A rabbinical court, when it had jurisdiction over capital crimes, would deliberate in full session (23 judges) on the fate of an animal, true. But only for capital offenses delineated in the Torah, such as a dangerous animal that had injured other animals or people repeatedly, and had recently gone so far as to kill someone, or an animal that had sexual relations with a woman. But alleged reincarnations are not something over which a rabbinical court would even have jurisdiction.
I’m not buying this one bit. It looks like Anti-Semitic Propaganda to me.
Besides, even the dumbest of dogs would not allow himself to be taken over by a lawyer. ;>) (my apologies to the good and honest lawyers out there, both of them)
I don’t know where to go with this, but it starts out: A Jew, a lawyer and a dog walk into a bar and the dog says.....
Who says the Pharisees and the rest of the odious Sanhedrin is gone?
“dog it feared was the reincarnation”
I’d call BS. Reincarnation? Judaism?
Reincarnation is part of Rabbinic Judaism. But only reincarnation and resurrection as a human.
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