This is just plain weird.
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Man inhabits dog?
Mon Sep 18, 7:43 AM ET
A stray dog which refused to budge from the home of a recently deceased
rabbi has finally moved on after a "redemption ceremony" at an Israeli
cemetery.
The dog, pictured in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Monday, showed up at the
house of the late Rabbi Nahman Dubinky.
Rabbis expert in Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, concluded the animal
could be possessed by a tortured soul seeking redemption. Ultra-Orthodox
Jews traditionally do not keep dogs as pets.
"Sometimes the souls of sinners, such as adulterers or people who slept
with non-Jews, enter the body of a dog," Rabbi Yitzhak Basri, a Kabbalah
scholar, told Israel Radio.
"It is known that when a righteous man dies, the souls of people in need
of redemption come to him so they can be healed as a result of his
death."
Basri said Rabbi Dubinky's family, along with a quorum of 10 mourners,
carried out a "redemption ceremony" at a cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount
of Olives.
"Afterwards, the dog did indeed leave the house," he said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060918/od_nm/israel_dog_dc
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