DEFAMERS OF THE DEAD.
CUT OFP FROM THE SYNAGOGUE RABBI’S COMPREHENSIVE CURSE. (By Telegraph-Press Ass n.-Copyright.) • (Received This Day, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, January 3.
The Tribune’s Paris correspondent states that, almost unknown in English sneaking countries, the ancient and terrible Jewish ceremony of excommunicating the soul of a person who has earned the Church’s disapproval is stih observed with passionate fervour in parts of Eastern Europe. The Rabbi of the village of Munkac, in Czoeho-Slovakia, before five thousand devout Israelites, invoked God according to the ceremony of the holy Torah to cast out all spiritual communication with those guilty of defaming the dead.
The Rabbi said; “May they be cursed in heaven, earth, sea and >ir. May they know no peace in the grave. May their names be effaced from memory. May all the maledictions of the Torah fall on their heads.” Dressed in the white robe only worn on this, the gravest situation arising in Jewish’theology, the Rabbi poured out his anathema, his flock kneeling in awed tilenee. ,
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 January 1927, Page 5
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