Ignorant goyim ping!
Posted on 12/12/2010 4:00:34 PM PST by SJackson
An Israeli tourist visiting New Zealand caused a minor panic on a New Zealand ferry on Sunday after the captain reported to police that a passenger was carrying a "suspicious article," NZTV reported.
Some media in New Zealand even reported a hostage situation aboard the ferry, even though the passenger was cooperative with police, according to the report.
The man was described as wearing what appeared to be "boxes" with "wires taped" to his body. "One individuals had two boxes attached, one box taped to his leg and one box seemingly taped to his forehead," a transportation services spokesman was quoted as saying in the report.
Jewish websites described the man as having worn his tefillin (phylacteries) on the morning ferry voyage.
He was stopped by police at the ferry's destination after it finished crossing the Cook Strait and was released by the police without being charged
He was not on a carpet with his butt in the air!
And...
The Torah commands that they should be worn to serve as a "sign" and "remembrance" that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt.
I take it he'll remember this particular crossing? ;)
Exactly. I have never seen a photo, but would have recognized it right away as a phylactery.
It has nothing to do with a remembrance about Egypt.
Deu 6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall he for frontlets between thine eyes.ML/NJ
Ignorant goyim ping!
Also right up there with the burkha, pope hat, and the $4,000.00 suit and tie worn by the TV ‘evangelist’
ROFL! Lookit the price on that! I get Del Monico steaks for less than that.
Where was that?
I’ve both seen and heard of these, but I know them as phylacteries, not tefillin. Never heard them called by the latter word.
Well, clothing has a variety of different uses. Protection from the weather; representing profession or rank; symbolizing belief or affiliation; and (in my case) hiding figure flaws :o)
Never saw one, never heard of one and I would have been concerned too. But then I’m not a obviously superior, special, know it all like you.
Furthermore, it seems to me the apparatus could also be used by a non-Jewish person, and the little boxes could contain something other than nice thoughts and prayers...that’s the way us idiots think these days.
They had to bribe the Rabbi... Kosher ham is hard to get!
Leftist don’t read.
Sort of like mining for rainbows. Got to tell ya though, bacon and ham are two of G-d’s alltime toughest temptations ever.
If this had happened here, imagine the sneering about ignorant American rednecks that would be coming our way from places like New Zealand.
“...one box taped to his leg...”
If that’s not a mistake, then it’s unusual. Tefillin are worn on the head and arm, and it wouldn’t be right placing one in the leg.
This one, looking close, has a small pig shape and a smaller “pork” label, but it wouldn’t be as stupid as this makes it sound to find kosher ham. It just would have to be made of beef or turkey. And yes, it would be somewhat expensive.
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