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Recieved: 1999/05/03 21:17
Subject: [K-list] Exorcism
From: Moshiach
On 1999/05/03 21:17, Moshiach posted thus to the K-list:
Subject: Dybbuk
DYBBUK-REMOVAL CEREMONY AROUSES BROAD INTEREST
The media in Israel have widely reported the removal ceremony of a dybbuk
[wandering soul] that was performed by Kabbalist Rabbi David Batzri,
together with some 30 other rabbis, in a Jerusalem yeshiva this past week.
The event has aroused reactions from many quarters, ranging from total
scorn to a desire to repent. It was broadcast live over hareidi radio
stations, and many people were invited to the ceremony, in order to
"publicize the sanctification of G-d's Name, and to cause more people to
believe in the existence of an afterlife" - according to Rabbi Batzri's
son, Rabbi Yitzchak Batzri. The younger Rabbi Batzri told Arutz-7 that an
"unbelievable amount of people have called and expressed the desire to
observe the commandments as a result."
Rabbi Batzri [the son] related that a woman whose husband had died three
and a half years ago had recently been plagued by the soul of her husband,
which "entered her body and spoke from within her in his own voice to his
sons and friends... The woman underwent terrible suffering. Finally,
after great hesitations, my father agreed to perform this ceremony, feeling
that the life of the woman was at stake - for the dybbuk had threatened to
kill her by choking." In a subsequent conversation with an Arutz-7
correspondent, the younger Rabbi Batzri explained that a "wandering" soul
suffers more than one that faces immediate divine punishment. In the
exorcism ceremony, Rabbi Batzri is heard talking forcefully with the
dybbuk, whose short answers are delivered in a raspy and sometimes unclear
voice. "My father told the dybbuk over and over that he has no right to
harm anyone... The dybbuk said he had committed many sins, but did not
want to elaborate... My father then performed a 'tikkun' [sublimation of
the soul], and forced the dybbuk to exit the woman's body through her toe.
She later felt great pain there for a few hours, but now, thank G-d, she is
perfectly healthy." The entire ceremony [in Hebrew] will be posted on the
Arutz-7 website later today, at <http://www.a7.org/sound/sound.htm
Rabbi Yossi Markel
moshiachATnospamnauticom.net
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