.. weird offbeat stuff ....
September 18, 2006 10:30 a.m. EST
Mary K. Brunskill -
Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - Rabbis expert in Kabbalah have carried out a "redemption ceremony" for a stray dog they believe may have housed the soul of a tortured human seeking redemption. The dog had been hanging around outside the home of a rabbi who recently died -- a sign, the rabbis contend, that the dog may have been inhabited by a bleeding human soul.
Rabbi Yitzhak Basri, a Kabbalah scholar, tells Israel Radio, "Sometimes the souls of sinners, such as adulterers or people who slept with non-Jews, enter the body of a dog. It is known that when a righteous man dies, the souls of people in need of redemption come to him so they can be healed as a result of his death."
Soon after Rabbi Nahman Dubinky died, the dog appeared outside his house. Basri, Rabbi Dubinky's family and a quorum of 10 mourners conducted the redemption ceremony at a cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.
It seems to have done its job.
Dubinky says, "Afterwards, the dog did indeed leave the house."
Mary K. Brunskill -
Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - Rabbis expert in Kabbalah have carried out a "redemption ceremony" for a stray dog they believe may have housed the soul of a tortured human seeking redemption. The dog had been hanging around outside the home of a rabbi who recently died -- a sign, the rabbis contend, that the dog may have been inhabited by a bleeding human soul.
Rabbi Yitzhak Basri, a Kabbalah scholar, tells Israel Radio, "Sometimes the souls of sinners, such as adulterers or people who slept with non-Jews, enter the body of a dog. It is known that when a righteous man dies, the souls of people in need of redemption come to him so they can be healed as a result of his death."
Soon after Rabbi Nahman Dubinky died, the dog appeared outside his house. Basri, Rabbi Dubinky's family and a quorum of 10 mourners conducted the redemption ceremony at a cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.
It seems to have done its job.
Dubinky says, "Afterwards, the dog did indeed leave the house."
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