It's a funny world:
Israel Postal Authority zips mail to God
Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1118802600733
Quote:
Thousands of people of various faiths from all over the world send
letters to God every year. Such letters are commonly forwarded to
Jerusalem, where the staff of a small post office in the Givat Shaul
commercial district, a department of the Israel Postal Authority dealing
with undeliverable mail, twice a year places them in the Western Wall.
Nearly a thousand such letters collected since the beginning of this
year were delivered on Wednesday. After a procession featuring Postal
Authority Director-General Yossi Sheli trailed by foreign journalists
and a small, intrigued crowd, Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch
received the messages and personally jammed them into the cracks between
the massive stone blocks of the Wall. Mail that eventually falls from
the Wall will be placed in a geniza for damaged religious texts and
materials deemed unfitting for the dump.
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With rows of pigeon holes behind him categorically labelled by type of
problem mail including junkmail, "Santa Claus," and "Letters to God,"
Sheli held an envelope addressed in Hebrew to Jesus from South Africa -
one of many letters addressed to Jesus. Another letter was addressed,
"Higher Secretary (Christian please!), Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine."
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