By Kobi Nahshoni, ynetnews.com
The Rabbinical Centre of Europe tackles complicated halachic questions sent by the rabbis of the continent on a daily basis. But nothing prepared the RCE for a recent query by a London rabbi, who sought the center’s help in getting rid of a ghost he said was dwelling in his new residence.
The RCE’s Response department in Israel, which provides halachic answers to the questions of European rabbis, was approached by Rabbi Levy Yitzhak Raskin of London on behalf of a fellow rabbi who asked not to be identified.
“In the last months he has noticed a foreign presence in his new home,” Raskin described in his letter. “Closed windows have been opened; he’s been hearing knocking, and so forth.”
According to Raskin, when the distraught rabbi turned to his congregation for help, “they confirmed that these strange events have occurred in the past, and estimated that the noises were caused by the ghost of a rabbi… who was the synagogue’s first rabbi and passed away 40 years ago, and is now seeking tikkun for his spirit.”
According to the congregation members, the founding rabbi would occasionally visit the house in order to see how his community was doing.
Will prayers help?
Upon receiving this query RCE member Rabbi Mordechai Biton immediately forwarded it to Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri.
Rabbi Amar ruled that two tikkun prayers – one for the house and the other for the deceased rabbi’s soul – should be recited in order to resolve the matter.
Rabbi Batzri offered to include the rabbi’s name in his yeshiva’s biannual tikkun prayers for the dead, or to instruct Rabbi Raskin how to hold such a prayer in London if necessary.
“If this doesn’t help, it’s a sign that this is a different ghost that may be misleading them, and we’ll discuss how to handle this later on.”
wow i cant believe it i never believed in ghosts
i always told my sister they arent real and im gonna stick with that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
u take a string and u start saying the a,b,c’s slowly and wen the string shakes from side to side thats one of the letters like if lets say ure names shalom kopfstein thenwen u get to the letter s then it shaks and it goes on and on until u figure it out and u also ask how old he/she is and u can figure out everything about the spirit and also somthing else u take a recorder and leave the house for like 1 day and then come back and u can hear the spirit talking and #16… Read more »
the doorbell rang in my house! im spooked!!!!!!!!! and to make matters worse, a minute later my phone rang! any suggestions?
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You are supposed to attatch one end of a USB wire to the computer, and the other end connect to the “anti-Sheidim hard drive” (can be easily bought on buy.com for under $80), DONT FORGET TO CONNECT THE DRIVE TO THE OUTLET, then send an email to [email protected] with your name, your mothers name, your social security number and your credit card info. then download a virus, when the virus spreads, call up Dr. Rosen to cure you. when he cures you, all the Shedim would be gone! It works every time for me!! It’s garunteed to work, or paypal… Read more »
wooooooooooo wooooooooooo woooooooooo!
i guess there is really life after death…
this is ridicules are we non jews who believe in such foolish things???
i may be just a kid but i think that i know better then to believe
such stupid things. i think that its just some1 who wants to prank ppl.
is it not said that the baal shem tov destroyed all of these things!
leave some old eggs. say go go ghost.
it works every time.
Perhaps they should bring in some Salmon rubed with meditranian spices, dipped in some Israely Chumus,
That should do it.
When such a thing happened in Monsey one ellul a few years back, it was a talking fish head; but again, this is UK and in Nissan. Maybe they should boil an egg and ask it for his name. They’ll surely find out if it waas the rabbi or just the same fish who swam acroos the pound.
VERY SPOOKY!!!
maybe they should get a minyan in there and say “we forgive you!” 3 times?
Or maybe he should invite the departed for Shabbos, save him a place at the table…
May his neshama have an aliyah and RIP!
There was a story a few years back in Toronto, one of the Shluchim who is a chaplain in one of the hospitals was called in to rid a ghost after many suspicious happenings; he asked Rabbi Immanuel Shochet what to do and he told him just to say a few chapters of Tehillim, light a candle and say Keil Malei Rachamim, and the Shliach went and ordered the spirit out in the name of the Rebbe…
Spoooky