[Avodah] You can't make this stuff up!

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:34:39 -0400
Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> So, On Oct 29, a group of notzrim looking to pray for financial success
> went to the famous statue at Bowling Green (not far from Wall Street,
> and even closer to US Agudah and OU offices) to pray. A little confused
> on their seifer shemos and Melakhim alef...

Perhaps they are really praying to God (or their deity, if it's
ontologically different from ours), and merely asking the statue to
intercede for them, or forward their prayers to the deity.  I have
occasionally heard similar justifications for various sorts of prayers
to entities other than God Himself by members of a sister religion.

> To quote, "We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the
> bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear
> markets to what we feel will be the 'Lion's Market,' or God's
> control over the economic systems."

So they say so explicitly; they are not imputing godhood to the statue
itself.

> Micha Berger             A person lives with himself for seventy years,

Yitzhak
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