It is a well-known fact that two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon, were subjected to the “Pulse Denura” prayer-curse ritual. After which the first was shot dead a month later, the second has been in a coma for many years.
In 2007, Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Dayan gave an interview in which he spoke about the ritual of the Kabbalistic curse and how he imposed it on Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon.
This is how he describes this ritual.
“This is first of all a prayer. And like any prayer, the Almighty may or may not accept it. But there is a prayer-blessing and a prayer-curse. A curse is also a prayer. After all, it is a request that you express verbally. Word "Prayer" in Hebrew comes from the word "talk". So I can pray while cursing someone. This is where the "Pulsa Denura" ceremony comes in.
When you ask for something very bad to happen to someone, it is as if you are bringing them to judgment. You are a witness. “I know that he did something bad, and You, the Supreme Judge, the Only Judge, judge him!” If I ask for punishment for someone undeservedly, then I can bring trouble upon myself. So this is not a child’s toy at all and they won’t just do it.”
Full details here http://illuminati23.narod.ru/dayan.html
But not everyone shares the opinion that the “Pulse of Denura” is an ancient Kabbalistic rite with enormous power of influence. So, in the same 2007, an American researcher refuted this myth; he believes that “Pulsa Denura” is ordinary political PR.
The mystery of the “Pulse Denura” ritual has been revealed
October 24, 2007.
On the 12-year anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Haaretz is publishing the findings of an American researcher who traced the origins of the "pulse denur" ceremony, which is known to have been held in front of Rabin's Jerusalem home shortly before his assassination on October 2, 1995.
The mysterious ceremony of the “pulse of denur” - an “ancient Kabbalistic rite” that dooms the sinner against whom it is directed to certain death within a month, is legendary throughout the world. However, Dr. Zion Zohar, head of the Department of Eastern Jewish Studies at the University of Florida, came to the conclusion that the ritual of the “denur pulse” has nothing to do with Kabbalah and is a very recent “invention”: the first mention of this ceremony is found only in the 50s XX century.
The term “pulsa denur” appears in the book of Zohar, but there this name refers to a divine power that protects against the forces of evil, and not at all a ritual death curse, explains Dr. Zohar in a work recently published in the journal Modern Judaism.
As the name of a ritual that dooms the enemies of the Jewish people to death, this term was first used by members of the ultra-Orthodox community “Neturei Karta” after the creation of the State of Israel: they performed a ritual with the lighting of black candles against a gravedigger who agreed to move Jewish graves from that place in Jerusalem, where a government complex was built.
The rite of the “denur pulse” was political from the very beginning and “was addressed not to higher powers, but to the media,” the researcher concludes.
What exactly is the mystical rite of “Pulse Denura”? The question remains open.
In Judaism, the presence of God is interpreted as the presence of a blessed, saving light or a consuming fire, depending on different situations. Hence the concept of the Jewish curse puls de-nura, which is translated as “strike of fire.” Such a curse is understood as an intangible - at the level of spiritual essence - punishment of the sinner.
In the Talmud and Kabbalistic literature, the punishment of guilty angels is depicted literally as flogging with fiery rods, which is a metaphorical description of divine punishment for the understanding of its essence by ordinary people. It is with this process that the pulse de-nura is associated.
On whom can the consuming divine fire descend?
In Kabbalistic practice there is a special ritual with the help of which a person condemning him can bring down the wrath of God on the head of a sinner. It will be expressed in a spiritual fire that is unbearable for a person, literally devouring from within. Only an absolutely sinless, sincere Jew who takes full responsibility for this act can send such a curse.
The wrath of God will fall on the head of the unjustly accused if the damned turns out to be innocent. For this reason, it is not customary for the Jews to “throw around” the curse of the pulse de-nura “right and left.” In accordance with basic religious ideas, such a curse is nothing more than an appeal to God's judgment. If God considers the cursed person guilty, he will be punished. Otherwise, it will fall on the head of the slanderer.
How exactly the ritual of cursing the pulse de-nura occurs is a secret not accessible to the general public. Pulsa de Nura can only fall on a Jew. Gentiles - or goyim - a priori cannot be subjected to such punishment. According to the concepts of orthodox Jews, non-believers generally do not follow the path of comprehending the highest divinity of essence and wisdom, therefore the heavenly light is incomprehensible to them.
This is the peculiarity of the punishment itself. On the path of his spiritual growth, a Jew approaches God more and more, gradually rising, step by step, to ever greater spiritual heights. Gradually, more and more information about the colossal infinite wisdom of God is revealed to him. If too much is revealed to a person at once, he simply cannot stand it. The fire will incinerate the soul and feelings.
According to Jewish law, the curse of the pulse de-nura can only apply to people who rise spiritually and grow. It does not have a negative nature, but is presented as “given to man beyond the measure of his understanding and capabilities.” Naturally, such abuse of power leads to dire consequences.
The most famous damned
There are suggestions that Leon Trotsky was cursed by Rabbi Hafetz Chaim. Doubts are raised by the fact that the curser himself died before Trotsky, while the pulse of de-nura should act within a year after uttering. But Eyal Ragonis definitely suffered from it.
This 37-year-old man was an ordinary architect who designed and supervised the construction of a luxury luxury complex. Ragonis angered the Jews for erecting this secular building on holy land, on the site of the oldest Jewish cemetery, and this is a violation of the laws and a great sin. The architect died of a heart attack 2 weeks after applying the de-nur pulse.
Ten elected rabbis meet at midnight in the synagogue. They light black candles, blow a shofar, and read certain passages from the Book of Zohar.
If the person against whom it is directed truly deserves punishment for what he has done and poses a serious danger to the Jewish people, this person will die within a year. If the rabbis were wrong, the curse would turn against them.
Here is what is known about the Kabbalistic curse of the “denur pulse”. Whether it really exists, and if so, how effective it is, is a matter of debate.
What is "pulse denur"?
The very name “denur pulse” is translated from a mixture of Latin and Aramaic as “strike with fire”, “fiery rods”. Rabbi Eliyahu Essas speaks of a “spiritual cord of fire (belt, whip) on which are strung rings of fire.” In essence, we are talking about punishing a person on a spiritual level, which, as a consequence, affects his condition in the physical world.
"Pulsa Denura" is considered the most powerful curse and can be directed only against Jews– in passages from the Zohar, “those who keep the commandments” are mentioned, and it is highly undesirable to make changes to the text of the curse.
It is believed that the “denur pulse” is a last resort, a kind of Kabbalistic nuclear weapon when other options have been exhausted, so it is used extremely rarely. It is necessary to inform the person that the “denur pulse” ritual was performed against him. This gives him the opportunity to repent and correct his mistake.
Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Dayan notes that this is a prayer calling on the Supreme Judge to pronounce a verdict on the case of a specific person. If the judge is summoned in vain, and the person is not guilty of what he is accused of, the one who called him as a false witness will receive the same punishment that he wished for the one whom he wanted to condemn.
In what Jewish texts does it appear?
The phrase "pulsa denur", that is, "rods of fire", appears in the Talmud in several places as a punishment for angels and higher beings, but nowhere is it mentioned as a ceremony directed against people or a ritual leading to death.
* Treatise Yoma p. 77a – blows of the “denur pulse”, this was the punishment the angel Gabriel received,
* Tractate Hagiga 15a – punishment of Metatron,
* Tractate Bava Metziah 85b - the punishment of the prophet Eliyahu after he was in heaven, because he tried to reveal to mortals a certain heavenly secret,
* Tractate Bava Metzia 47a, in which Rav Rava says to Rav Huna: “If this Levi had been here who asked, I would have beaten him with blows of fire.” In other words: “I would punch him for such stupid questions, so that sparks would fall from his eyes,” that is, a purely figurative expression.
The book of Zohar mentions the "pulsa denur" several times as "rods of fire" as punishment for sinners.
As Nechama Polonsky notes, if there is a mention of the “pulse denur” ritual in Jewish texts, then they do not belong to the mainstream of Judaism or the mainstream of Kabbalah.
Who was it used against?
The "pulse denur" ceremony may have been carried out against a number of prominent members of the Jewish people, with varying degrees of success.
– Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, “father of modern Hebrew.” The newspaper Ha-Zvi, which he founded, aroused the wrath of the ultra-Orthodox community with its publications, and a Kabbalistic curse ceremony was allegedly held against the linguist.
- Leon Trotsky - it is alleged that Rabbi Chafetz Chaim cursed him because he brought great misfortune to the Jewish people and tried to alienate Jews from religion. However, this is doubtful, because Chafetz Chaim died in 1933, and Trotsky was killed in Mexico in 1940.
- Gershon Agron, Mayor of Jerusalem. In 1959, a “denur pulse” was carried out against him due to the opening of a swimming pool on the site where there might previously have been Jewish graves. Two weeks later he died.
- Eyal Ragonis, architect who designed and built the Givat Andromeda complex in Jaffa. The Haredim believed that the construction was being carried out partly on the site of an ancient Jewish cemetery. A former General Staff special forces officer, 37-year-old Ragonis soon suffered a severe heart attack from which he died.
- Ihtzak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel. A month after the curse he was killed.
- Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel. Six months later he fell into a coma, and eight years later he died. The well-known publicist Avigdor Eskin claims that he personally took part in the “denur pulse” ritual directed against Ariel Sharon. The curse was read out by ten religious Jews at the Rosh Pina cemetery. His words are confirmed by the famous Kabbalist Yosef Dayan, who was also present at both ceremonies.
- Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel. In July 2006, a group of right-wing activists recited a Kabbalistic curse against Olmert at the Mount Herzl cemetery. In January 2014, Olmert is alive.
- Ehud Netzer, archaeologist. He devoted his life to searching for the tomb of King Herod. When he found it, representatives of the ultra-Orthodox community warned him not to open it, otherwise he would be cursed by them. Netzer did not listen, and in October 2010, while talking with colleagues on the top of Herodium, he leaned against a wooden parapet. Suddenly, the railing came off as the fastening bolts broke. Together with them, the archaeologist himself fell down and died.
- Naftali Bennett, Minister of Economy in April 2013 received an anonymous letter informing him that a “denur pulse” had been carried out against him and his relatives for the harm he had caused to the religious community. "Days full of bitterness await you. From this day forward, your life is ruined." In January 2014, Bennett is alive.
There are other examples of carrying out Kabbalistic rites against certain people, but cases when the “pulse of denur” worked against those conducting them are little known.
The attitude of the authorities towards "pulse denur"
On August 30, 2005, the government's legal adviser, Meni Mazouz, decided not to open a criminal case against those who held the "denur pulse" ceremony against Ariel Sharon.
Mazuz noted that they were addressing higher powers, not people, and a prayer wishing death for a person, although it should not be part of the social norm, is still not incitement to murder and falls within the framework of freedom of expression.
Different points of view on the "pulse denur""
Grigory Kotlyar, the first Russian-speaking Reform rabbi in Israel:
The "pulse denur" ceremony in its current form is not mentioned in any ancient or medieval Jewish text. Moreover, cursing, especially in the name of God, is repeatedly prohibited by the Torah. In essence, this is exactly what the third of the Ten Commandments says - “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.”
The very expression “pulsa denur” translated from Aramaic means “fiery blow”, and the word pulse is borrowed from Latin, which indicates its relatively late origin. It is found in the book of Zohar, but as a punishment from above, and not a ceremony carried out on the initiative of man.
Judging by the descriptions given, the modern “denur pulse” is a variation of the ancient rite of excommunication from the community (herem). The same surroundings are present: ten Jews (minyan), extinguishing candles, blowing the shofar. Yes, but herem, declared by Haredim in relation to secular Jews, does not scare anyone, so they gave it a new meaning for the uninitiated, so that it would be scary. So, most likely, the real recipient of the “denur pulse” is not the angels of heaven, but the superstitious and sensation-hungry Israeli public and press.
M.T.: I believe that the “denur pulse” could have been read against Ariel Sharon, and this curse led to a coma. I had to deal with its effects personally. The famous archaeologist Ehud Netzer, who found the tomb of King Herod, was a friend of our family. I remember how he sat in our kitchen and ridiculed the rabbis who “sentenced” him to damnation for opening the grave of the Jew Herod, and literally a week later Netzer fell from the top of Herodion and smashed his head on the stones.
Pinchas Polonsky, researcher of Judaism:
“Pulsa denura” is not an ancient Kabbalistic rite, but a kind of remake, an attempt to strengthen “herem” - excommunication from the ultra-Orthodox community. When at some point they stopped being afraid of “herema”, they came up with “pulsa denuru”.
If modern Kabbalists could juggle the world as they are prescribed, then there would be no Holocaust, they would have changed the course of history in time. But Kabbalists are not magicians.
On the other hand, there is a certain balance in the world, let's call it justice. Sharon's decision on "unilateral disengagement" broke thousands of destinies, he was cursed - not by Kabbalists, but by ordinary people - and this hit him like a boomerang. Curse and blessing have power in life. And those who do not understand anything about Kabbalah believe in the “pulsa denura”.
And I’ll add on my own behalf - with this curse it’s the same as with all types of witchcraft and prayers: if it works, then it’s real - believe it. If it doesn’t work, it means either a) this is God’s will. b) did it wrong.
Jewish blessings and curses
“It is better that they curse you than you curse another” - this is from the Talmud, and, nevertheless, there are few such masters of curses as the Jews.
However, in fairness, it should be noted that during their centuries-old history they had someone and something to curse: the massacre during the first crusade, blood libels, the extermination of Jews by Khmelnitsky Cossacks in Poland and Ukraine, the Holocaust, Stalinist paranoid hatred, state and everyday anti-Semitism a country that almost reached communism... The undisputed virtuosos in this area were the native speakers of the Yiddish language and culture, the Jews of Eastern Europe. It's hard to imagine, but just seventy years ago 11 million people spoke this language.
Heavenly book "Sefer Chaim"
“The book is open, the hand writes, and debt collectors... receive from a person with or without his knowledge,” said the systematizer of Halacha, Rabbi Akiva. The Talmud calls it a debt book. Life is destined for the righteous included in this book of life, while those who were crossed out face death and oblivion. On the day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), three books are opened, one for the incorrigible sinners, another for the blameless righteous, and a third for the rest. They sign up there: the first - immediately to death, the second - immediately to life, the third wait for the hearing of their case until Yom Kippur (Judgment Day). If you deserve forgiveness, go to the first, if you don’t deserve it, go to the second.
May you be erased from the Book of Life. So that the Almighty will punish you on Judgment Day.
Not weak curses? It happened that they fell on our own people. Spinoza's first work, A Short Treatise on God, Man and His Bliss, aroused the wrath of the learned rabbis of Amsterdam. In 1656, a herem (Jewish anathema) was imposed on him, thereby “excommunicating and alienating him from the people of Israel.” Just listen to the cart they rolled onto the 24-year-old youth: “By the judgment of the angels and the verdict of the saints, we anathematize, curse and excommunicate Baruch de Spinoza... we pronounce anathema on him, as Jesus anathematized Jericho, as Elisha cursed the children, and we deliver him over to all the curses that are written in the book of the Law. May he be cursed by day and cursed by night; cursed when he lies down and when he gets up, when he goes out and when he comes in. May God never forgive or recognize him again! May the wrath and disfavor of the Lord burn this man from now on, bring down on him all the curses written in the book of the Law, and uproot his very name from under heaven...
Let everyone be warned that no one should communicate with him verbally or in writing, or do him any service, or live under the same roof with him, or come within four cubits of him, or read any document, dictated by him or written by his hand."
Crossed - neither a Jew nor a goy
Jews did not like apostates. Often those who were converted became zoological anti-Semites. A striking example: the leader of the Moscow branch of the Black Hundred organization “Union of the Russian People”, editor of an ardent anti-Semitic newspaper and part-time scoundrel and provocateur Vladimir Gringmut. It was meant to be like him:
May your head be in the ground and your feet in the church.
In eventful Jewish life, it happened that in the struggle within communities, denunciations and slander became weapons and a means of settling scores. The enmity between adherents of Hasidism and its opponents among rabbis and leaders of Jewish communities began with polemics and the publication of pamphlets, and ended with mutual curses and mutual denunciations to the authorities.
Burn with fire the place where the Hasid set foot - their opponents cursed the Hasidim “mitnagdim”. Jews have always had a rich imagination and sense of humor. Curses and humor? Why not?
So that all your teeth fall out and only one remains - for toothache...
So that your legs serve you only for rheumatism...
So that you spend everything you have on doctors, and even pawn your wife’s skirt...
How do you like this wish?
To be carried in their arms...
Sounds good? But... don’t flatter yourself, it only means
May you be paralyzed.
Or:
May the Almighty instill in you a new soul...
But in order for this to happen, you must first give the old one to God! Numerous ailments, and especially one of the oldest - leprosy - are most often present in Jewish curses.
Leprosy (malaria, aches, cholera, plague, fever) ... in your head (in the liver, on the tip of the nose, in the heart, in the side, in the bones, in the ass...).
By the way, the Jewish doctor Ya. Sheskin was the first to use the drug thalidomide to treat leprosy (Hansen's disease) in 1914. There is still a leper hospital in Jerusalem today.
Justified scandal
Not only Jews, but also other peoples inhabiting the Middle East loved to slander. Once the Philistines gathered their troops in the valley of Ha-El and stood against the Israeli camp. And they couldn’t do anything, because... ahead of the enemy was the Philistine giant Goliath from the city of Gath (Geth). In the biblical narratives of the book of I Samuel, the duel of the proletarian David (at that time he was a shepherd, as he was tending his father’s flock) with the giant Goliath is described in detail. So, this Goliath not only “exposed” himself to the Israelis for forty days, but also... “vilified” them. For which he received the main proletarian weapon - a cobblestone - on the dome, from the future (second) Israeli king. In the Middle East, in various vassal-type agreements, curses were often found as punishment for the violator. In the Bible, along with elements of belief in the supernatural power of a curse, there is the idea that if it is fair, it will be fulfilled by God. If not, it will turn on the curser or have no effect. Cursing God, authorities and parents is a grave crime. Biblical law dictates that anyone who curses or hits a parent must be put to death. The Talmud repeatedly speaks of the power of a curse, whether it is an appeal to God to send misfortune to someone, uttering the words of a curse, or even a curse with a glance. The most vile types of slander in Judaism are slander and denunciation. The Pentateuch says: “Do not spread false rumors. Do not act as a carrier (of gossip) among your people. Beware of everything bad." Slander is equally forbidden to both the one slandering and the one listening to his words. It harms not only the object of slander, but also both of them. Biblical law points to a case of slander punished by the court (Deut. 22:13-19): the unfounded public accusation of a wife that she was not a virgin before marriage. Hundreds of maxims of the Haggadah (a collection of parables, legends, sermons, etc.) condemn slander and threaten the blasphemer with God's judgment. There are also examples of curses that have come true. Laban cursed his daughter Rachel and she died young. Abimelech, king of Grar, cursed Sarah, and this curse came true. Otherwise, as often happens, they can slander or offend undeservedly... Interrupting a service in the synagogue has always been considered a grave sin. A Jew who believed that injustice had been shown to him could demand an analysis of his case, i.e. to cause a “justifiable scandal” even by interrupting prayer or Torah study, and this reason was considered valid. After leaving Egypt, the Israelites, who had suffered enough, grumbled against God. The Almighty forgave them everything except the sin of slander. According to Halacha, denunciation, giving shameful nicknames, insulting scientists (where have you seen an unlearned Jew?) and malicious slander are subject to consideration by a special court. Punishments: knas (monetary fine), nezifa (censure, reprimand), niddui (temporary and partial exclusion from the community), malkot (scourge). It is easy to offend a person. It is more difficult to repent of what you have done. The condition for Divine forgiveness is repentance, in which the repentant must experience sincere disgust for his offense and prove this disgust with all his behavior. Confession of sins without repentance has no value. The sinner must be induced to repent; It is forbidden to remind a repentant person of his previous sins. In Christianity, the mediator between the repentant and God is a priest, in Judaism there is a direct connection. On the eve of the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), Jews must ask each other for forgiveness, even when there was no offense, even when the damage has been compensated, even when you are not sure that you are at fault. And the one who is asked for forgiveness is advised not to persist and accept the apology. If the person asking for forgiveness came to the victim three times (and to his teacher - and more) and he did not forgive him, then he must come a fourth time along with ten witnesses. If the victim does not forgive the repentant this time, then he himself commits a sin and can be called akhzari (cruel). Abraham not only forgives the offense to the king of Grar and makes peace with him, but also prays for him. Ben Sira's wisdom says: “The vengeful will receive vengeance from the Lord, and He will remember his sins to him. Forgive your neighbor for his evil deeds, and then pray, and your sins will be forgiven you...”
The third Egyptian plague...
Pharaoh refused to let the people of Israel go and Egypt suffered ten punishments, ten “plagues of Egypt”: blood, frogs, lice, locusts, dog flies, various ferocious beasts, hail, darkness, boils, death of the firstborn.
I wish you the third plague of Egypt (lice).
Curses of Tsarist times
What could please Jewish parents more than the excellent health of their children? And here:
So that your sons please the army doctors with their health.
So that you meet a Cossack.
So that you become a bug in Petliura’s mattress and die from his vile blood.
During the civil war, the Cossacks and Petliurists played their bloody role in the history of Eastern European Jewry.
Luft-mench, switzer, tuches-liquor...
UNESCO recognized Sholom Aleichem, M. Twain, A. Chekhov and B. Shaw as the greatest humorous writers in world literature. Even as a child, Sholom Rabinovich began to write down curses he heard from his own stepmother. What was there: an asmodeus, a bathhouse attendant, a blockhead, a tramp, a broom, a cross, a stupid face, a beggar, a gander in a yarmulke, a savage, a fool, a devil, a sinner, a snake, an idiot, a cab driver, a bottomless gut... The characters of the great are not shy in their expressions Jewish writer. Open any of his volumes at random - you won’t have to search for long. Bone sickness and good fever are distributed left and right to enemies and to each other by the inhabitants of Jewish towns.
“So that their mouths would twist, so that their eyes would pop out, so that their arms and legs would be paralyzed, so that they would walk on crutches, so that they would lose their parents, so that they and their children and grandchildren would go from house to house begging...” - Old Neha curses. In each of his stories the author asks: what is a Jew without faith? And he answers: nothing! Who will be exalted and who will be cast down, who travels and who trudges on foot. The main thing is hope! We must live by hope, only by hope! And if for the time being we have to grapple with grief, then that’s why we Jews in this world, as they say, are the chosen people... It’s not for nothing that the whole world envy us... And we had to grapple with grief a lot, even in the most tragic situations, the Jew found place for a joke. Tevye the Milkman:
“You know what, Mr. Sholom Aleichem? Let's talk about more fun things. What have you heard about cholera in Odessa?
There is nothing faster and faster in the world,
quicker and more agile, like a bird,
than a middle-aged sick Jew,
looking for an opportunity to feed himself.
This is Igor Guberman about the unfortunate businessman-“man of the air”. “Luft Manch” - this character was also introduced into world literature by Sholom Aleichem. An unlucky stock speculator, a small-town Jew, who goes to the big city to earn a little money and loses what little he has. About twenty years ago I flew to Tel Aviv on business. Every second passenger I had the pleasure of meeting looked very businesslike: leafing through contracts, sorting through samples, editing projects, discussing business proposals...
From oil extraction from the Dead Sea and sturgeon breeding in the Kinneret to the construction of the Israeli Exhibition of Economic Achievements in the Negev Desert and the production of super-complex locks for car wheels. I remember a small, disheveled candidate of some sciences from Novosibirsk telling me about secrets in a whisper in my ear.
“Understand,” he convinced me, “two doctors of mathematical sciences calculated, one option - for 150 thousand combinations!” I met him a couple of weeks later at the market. “Well, let’s go secret?” He shook his head negatively: “Everything here is not like people’s.” It turned out that in Israel they don’t steal wheels. Jewish proverbs and sayings are a good topic for a separate article. I’ll cite just one, which says that it’s better not to make a Jewish woman angry, otherwise she’ll open her mouth and make everyone angry:
"The smallest woman can have the biggest mouth."
Where else in the world can you hear this:
“Woman, or cataracts are preventing you from seeing that you stepped on my jacket - so that your feet wither!”
I recorded this at Tel Aviv's Carmel market. There:
Customer: “Why are all your cucumbers crooked today?”
Merchant: “Motek! (darling) Come closer, I’ll show you one straight one.”
Do you think they parted as enemies or at least resented each other? Anywhere, but not in Israel. Well, if someone calls someone “schmok” or “shiker” - just think! Although, it happens that a nickname becomes attached - so for the rest of your life. Tukhes-liker, potz, adiyot, fartser... - do not need translation. Shtinker is a stinker, Shtyp is a stupid... - such nicknames can still be heard today.
Geeks and billiard players
“Broidin promised but did nothing. In the cellar of Zalman Krivoruchka, Talmudic curses rained down on his head and on the heads of the members of the union of communal workers. The old men cursed the marrow in the bones of Broidin and the members of the union, fresh seed in the wombs of their wives and wished each of them a special type of paralysis and ulcers” - this is the unsurpassed stylist of the Russian language Isaac Babel. “...A special type of paralysis...” - as if the ordinary wasn’t enough! His heroic bandits, the inhabitants of old Odessa, who only think about “drinking a glass of vodka, about punching someone in the face,” do not mince words in their expressions. But they also know what it means to maintain decency. The owner of the ready-to-wear clothing store, Monsieur Boyarsky, delicately explains to the “hussar on vacation” Levka Krik why a Jew should not eat crayfish: “A Jew who respects crayfish can allow himself more with the female sex than he should allow himself, he can say dirty things at the table, and if he has children, they are one hundred percent geeks and billiard players.”
Fat goose, beautiful wife...
So that you become like a lamp: it hangs during the day, burns at night, and goes out in the morning.
What is there to comment on! May you suffer as much while dying as I suffer while living. I am sure that many of you, dear readers, have heard similar things from the lips of former and current wives, mothers-in-law, mothers-in-law... Maybe the words were a little different, but the meaning is the same Anyone who has at least once tasted any of the following understands what terrible curses these are:
So that every day you eat chopped liver with onions, fatty herring, broth with dumplings, carp with horseradish, stew with tzimmes, pancakes, tea with lemon - and so that you choke on every bite.
So that you have the fattest goose, but so that you have no teeth; there was the best wine, but there was no taste ( and this is generally a blow below the belt - author .); there would be the most beautiful wife, and you would be impotent.
Cholera in their side!
“In other nations, emotional stress is relieved with the help of vulgar, obscene expressions. The Jews of Eastern Europe eased the soul not with obscene language, but with evil wishes, very picturesque and often humorous. The Jews understood that neither good nor evil wishes have magical power, he writes in his book “So that we hear only good news. Blessings and curses in Yiddish” by Professor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Yosef Guri. Lets heart onle good news. Yiddish blessing and curses."JUDEAN CURSE":
A curse (אָלָה, ala; מְאֵרָה, meara; קְלָלָה, put; The Talmud also uses the Aramaic לְטוּתָא, letuta) - an oral negative wish addressed to a specific person or group of people with or without mentioning the name of G‑d. According to traditional belief, a curse has spiritual power that can harm the cursed person or his family. Jewish law prohibits cursing oneself or others, and cursing one's parents carries the highest penalty - death by court verdict. "skill"(so-called “stoning”) (see Shemot 21:17).
What is the power of the curse?
The power of the curse is directly related to the Divine nature of the human soul. Speech is the Divine element that the Creator endowed man with at the last stage of his creation, breathing the soul into him (see Unkelos' translation of Bereshit 2:7). The divine component of human speech gives words spiritual power, making it possible to bless, curse, conjure and even create ( "Sefer HaHinuch" app. 350 and Maaral Netivot olam, netiv lashon).
The power of the curse increases if the curse was pronounced by a righteous person who keeps his lips pure and holy.
Why does the curse work?
Torah commentator and kabbalist Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh, in his commentary on the chapter Balak, explains that a curse causes G-d to have a strict attitude towards the cursed ( midat ha-din), - which can lead to immediate punishment for already existing sins for which he received a “respite” within the framework of the Merciful Treatment ( Midat HaRachamim).
Thus, almost all people are subject to the power of the curse, since there is no person who has never sinned ( see Kohelet 7:20). But an absolutely pure righteous person, without a single sin, is not subject to the power of the curse, because... has no reason for punishment from Above.
Should you be afraid of a curse?
The ritual of excommunication took place in the presence of ten Jews and was accompanied by various curses and prayers calling for punishment from the defendant for his disobedience. During the curses, a stretcher for the dead was brought into the courtroom, the judges held a Torah scroll in their hands, and lit candles. Part of the ritual was also the blowing of the shofar.
In the Talmud (Moed Katan 17a) using the example of several stories, it is indicated that the destructive power of the “herem” curse can lead to the sudden death of the damned.
The curse of “mi she para” for canceling the deal
Another type of curse known in Jewish judicial practice is the curse "mi she para..." (Hebrew - "the one who exacted..."). Name "mi she para" are the opening words of the curse: "He who punished the generation of the flood, the Tower of Babel, and the inhabitants of Sodom and Amora, He will punish the one who does not keep his word."
A curse "mi she para" is assigned automatically to any person who cancels a business transaction after payment.
The fact is that from the point of view of the Jewish property code, the transfer of money does not complete the act of acquisition until the buyer has received the goods in hand. And therefore, de jure, the transaction can be canceled - for example, in favor of another buyer.
However, if one of the parties decides to cancel the transaction after payment, but before receiving the goods, then the one who canceled receives a curse "mi she para".
The Curse of the Pulse de Nur
In the midst of political wars in the state of Israel, the so-called curse became famous "pulsa de-nura" (from Aramaic - "fire strike" or "fireballs"), used by various radicals to intimidate and influence various political figures and party leaders. It is known that the ritual Pulsa de Nura was produced by the far-right Orthodox in the run-up to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, and also six months before Ariel Sharon's stroke in 2006. Some attribute the untimely deaths of politicians to the result of the curse being carried out Pulsa de Nura.
Many researchers question the originality of this ritual due to the fact that it is not mentioned in ancient sources and in cabalistic literature. In addition, in the Talmud and in haggadic literature, the concept of “puls de-nur” is used in the sense of Heavenly punishment in relation to spiritual entities, but not as a curse inflicted by people. However, it is clear that the Puls de Nura ritual itself is almost entirely based on the customs performed during the casting of the herem, where curses were also pronounced to the sound of a shofar in the presence of ten men and with lit candles. Most likely, the ritual itself is a slightly modified form of the “herem” curse, where the name was borrowed from the Talmud on an associative basis.
Therefore, it is possible that the effectiveness of the curse of the pulse de-nur takes place, like any herem, if it is issued according to the decision of the beit din and on an objective basis.
How to get rid of the curse?
- In the book Pele Yoetz (chapter "Klala") is given: the one who hears a curse addressed to him, let him say at this moment: “Lo ken iye, ele gam baruch iye”(“let it not be so, but let him be blessed!”).
- In the book Orach Meisharim (chapter 10 based on the Talmud) it is written that in order for the curse not to come true, an action should be performed that is somewhat reminiscent of the content of the curse. Thus, the curse seems to be carried out through an action that is harmless to a person.
- The text should be spoken "atarat clalot"(absolution of curses), compiled by Rabbi Shlomo Sharabi.
- Let him pray so that the curse does not come true (Lereeha kamoha paragraph 7)
- You should ask for blessings from the righteous (Tosfot Sanhedrin 70a “Kilelo”).
Absolution of curses "atarat klalot"
The remission of oaths is performed in the presence of ten men, preferably among them are Torah scholars.
If it is impossible to gather ten men, then you can make “atatrot klalot” even in front of three men.
During the ritual, a text is read, compiled by the cabalist Rabbi Shlomo Sharabi, where the supplicant asks those present, on behalf of the Heavenly Court, to release the curses placed on him, and thereby partially get rid of the negative influence of curses and ain hara - “the evil eye.”
In some communities it is the custom to perform absolution every year on the eve of