TERRIBLE RITE.
# . • . EXCOMMUNICATING THE SOUL. (BT CABMS—»MSS« ASSOCIATION—COmiQHT.) (BIDHBT "Strs" Sxbvice.} LONDON, January 3. The Paris correspondent of the "Tribune" states that, though almost unknown in English-speaking countries, the ancient and terrible Jewish ceremony of excommunicating the soul of a person who has. earned the Church's disapproval is still observed with passionate fervour in parts of Eastern Europe. The rabbi of the village of Munkac, in Czecho-Slovakia. before five th6usand devout Israelites, invoked God, according to the ceremony of the Holy Torah, to cast out of all spiritual communication those guilty of defaming the dead. The rabbi said: "May they be cursed in heaven, earth, sea, and air. May they know no peace in the grave. May their names be effaced from memory. May all the maledictions. of Torah fall on their heads." DTessed in a white robe, only worn during this grayest situation arising out or Jewish theology, the rabbi poured out the anathema, the flock kneeling in awed silence.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 7
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161TERRIBLE RITE. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 7
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