As of this morning the High Court is considering three petitions from varied groups of religious opponents to the parade. Surely this is an example of peaceful protest? Let us not kid ourselves that they will be sympathetic though as the Court has such a wonderful history of siding with religious groups....
And at some point this week rabbonim from the Edah Haredis will gather to curse the parade organisers in the 'Pulsa D'Nora', sourced in the Bavli and Zohar. If done by a G-d fearing rabbinic court, the objects of the curse do not live out the year. If done for the wrong reasons, the curse backfires onto those performing it. Sharon and Rabin have both been cursed by a right-wing resident (I never use the word 'settler') rabbi from Psagot. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378339537&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
And yeshiva and seminary students are gathering to pray together to prevent the march and/or the violence that seems to go with it. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1162378347788&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
There are ways of going about things (I'm not sure the curse is a good one, see below) that do not involve violence and pain.
As for cursing people, we learn that you must even break Shabbat to save a rasha (truly evil person)'s life so I'm not sure how asking Hashem to kill someone fits in with that. There is also a story of a great Rav, who, when he expressed a prayer that Hashem should kill some kids that were making fun of him, his wife told him that he shouldn't pray for their deaths but their sincere repentance. This he did and they did repent and become Torah-observant. Surely this is more appropriate?
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I think repentance is the aim of the Pulsa D'Nora
Oh well that's okay then.
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