THE RABBI’S CURSE.
EX-COMMUNICATING THE SOUL. (Aust and N.Z. Cable.) London, Jan. 3. The Tribune’s Paris correspondent says that it is almost unknown in English-speaking countries that the ancient and terrible. Jewish ceremony of ex-communicating the soil 1 nf a person who has earned the Church’s disapproval -s still observed with disapproval is still observed with ern Europe, The Rabbi of the village of Munkac, Czechoslovakia, before; 5000 .-- . | devout Israelites, invoked God. .according to the ceremony in the Holy Torah, to cast out from all spiritual communication those who were guilty of defaming the dead. The Rabbi said: “May they he cursed in Heaven, on earth, on. the sea, and in the air. May they know no peace in the grave. May their names be effaced from memory. May all ,th« maledictions of Torah fall on their heads.” Dressed in a white robe, only worn in this, the gravest situation arising in Jewish theology, the. Rabbi poured out his anathema, the flock kneeling in awed silence, y
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Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 991, 5 January 1927, Page 5
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