Theos-Talk Archives (February 1998 Message tt00022)

The following is interesting. Does this action constitute black
magic?

-- Eldon

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JERUSALEM, Feb 3 (AFP) - A leading rabbinical mystic plans to
hold a special prayer in Tel Aviv calling on the angels to
protect Israel from an eventual missile attack from Iraq, the
rabbi's son said on Tuesday.

Rabbi David Batzri, a specialist in the cabala system of Jewish
mysticism, will hold the ceremony in the coming days, Moshe
Batzri told Israel radio.  "My father will go to Tel Aviv to hold
special prayers callong on the angels to protect Israel if it is
attacked by Saddam Hussein," he said, referring to the Iraqi
president.

"In the meantime, people must pray once a day and perform good
acts" to ward off Iraqi hostility, he said.

The Maariv newspaper said Rabbi Batzri also planned, if Iraq
fired missiles at Israel, to fly around Israel seven times in a
helicopter to deflect the rockets.

Iraq fired 39 missiles on Israel during the 1991 Gulf War,
killing two persons and wounding hundreds.