[Avodah] A Prayer During Operation Cast Lead

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> R' Elyashiv was asked about the permissability of 12 Step programs
> (Alcoholics Anonymous and the like). Among the questions asked is the
> use of the Paternoster ("Our Father Who art in heaven..."), a Notzri
> prayer. Issues of trinitarianism, etc...

I don't see any issues with their lord's prayer, except its associations.
As far as I can tell there's nothing in it with which we would disagree,
let alone see as treif.  The worst that I can say about it is that it's
been associated with AZ for so long that the words may have absorbed some
tum'ah, or have become hateful to Hashem like a matzeivah.  But if someone
who didn't know its origins were to see it I don't think they'd find
anything to object to.

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Zev Sero                                     May the light of Chanukah
zev at sero.name                                brighten your life