STRANGE JEWISH CEREMONY
PUNISHMENT OF THE GUILTY.
By Telegraph—Press Atsn.—Copyright, Received Jan. 4, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 3. The Tribune’s Paris correspondent states that, almost unknown in Englishspeaking countries, there is an ancient and terrible Jewish ceremony of excommunication of the sole person who has earned the church’s disapproval, still observed with passionate fervour in parts of Eastern Europe, A rabbi, in the village of Munkae, in Czecho-Slovakia, before 5000 devout Israelites, invoked God, rtbcording to the ceremony of the Holy Torah, to east out all spiritual communication with those guilty of defaming the dead rabbi. He said; "May they bo cursed by heaven, by earth, by sea and by air. 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 a white robe only worn in this gravest situation arising out of Jewish theology, the rabbi poured out anathema, his flock kneeling In awed silence.
The Torah is one of the three parts of the Hebrew Bible, viz., Law or Pentateuch.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1927, Page 7
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