Pulsa dinura

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Pulsa diNura ( Aramaic : פולסא דנורא - 'fire whip') is a magical ritual used by Jewish radicalists in which God is asked to curse a supposed sinner.

The roots of the expression probably come from the tract Hagiga 15a of the Babylonian Talmud . This passage mentions sixty pulsai dinura to chastise the angel Metatron . A pulsa dinura is also mentioned in the Zohar (Section 3: 263c, Raja Mehemna), one of the classical works of Kabbalah . Here it is described as heavenly punishment against a person who fails to fulfill their religious obligations. The term also appears in a small number of other places in the Talmud and Zohar, but not in the context of a mystical curse.

Some Jewish fundamentalists who see themselves as Kabbalists developed from this tradition the concept of invoking a curse on a sinner, which they called pulsa diNura .

Recently there have been two publicly noticed cases. Rabbi Yossi Dayan, a political extremist, threatened to curse Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon if he tried to push through his plan to evacuate Gaza .

In an interview with an Israeli television station, Dayan said that he had already used the curse against Jizhak Rabin in 1995 , shortly before he was murdered by Jigal Amir . The curse was also picked up by fanatical demonstrators, who saw him as a clear threat of death and thus set the stage for prepared the actual murder, which was then predicted and expected by some observers.

On July 26, 2005, some opponents of the Gaza withdrawal plan issued a press release claiming they had cast the Pulsa diNura curse. They asked the Angel of Death to kill Prime Minister Sharon. This act was heavily condemned in the press and by the Israeli public.

The Israeli television broadcaster Kanal 10 reported that a Pulsa diNura was pronounced against the incumbent Prime Minister Ehud Olmert . From the scant information one can see that this time the ritual took place shortly before the new moon (June 25, 2006 at 4:06 pm) and was then made public on Sunday on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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