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trm@pacificnet.net (tom moran) wrote in message news:<3b3ff2d0.84515995@news.pacificnet.net>...
> http:www.LynchburgTimesChronicler.com/Ovadia/dreams/22_20.htm
> 
> RABBI OVADIA YOSEF INTERPRETS BOWEL MOVEMENTS AS MESSIANIC SIGN
> 
(Loud farting announces an imminent pronouncement. Should play well at
the Wailing Wall. What about a mini-Holocaust movement?)

JWH



> by James Conant
> 
> Lynchburg Times Chronicler reporter
> 
> Thursday, June 28, 2001
> 
> LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA (AP) - One day after publicly announcing a
> messianic dream, Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has sent
> additional messianic shockwaves through the ultra-Orthodox community
> in Israel and the United States.  This time, however, Rabbi Ovadia
> Yosef's latest interpretation has raised numerous eyebrows and
> concerns about his mental state. The Shas spiritual leader claims he
> can now forecast the arrival of the Messiah according to the frequency
> and veracity of his bowel movements. No stranger to controversy,
> Ovadia has in the past informed his followers in the ultra-Orthodox
> community that nose-picking during the Sabbath did not violate
> Halakhah (rules mandated to and followed by observant Jews), the
> Holocaust victims were the reincarnated souls of Jewish sinners, and
> that Israel should annihilate all Palestinians.
> 
> 
> Controversial MK Tommy Lapid of the of the leftist, secular Shinui
> party said: "This should prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Ovadia
> is not well mentally." The Rabbi told personal confidants of his
> latest mystical experience. Yosef later confirmed rumors of this
> latest interpretation on Shas radio.  "Solid stools indicated the
> strength of Ariel Sharon's policies, but lately, the stools have had a
> softer text, indicating Sharon's weakness and the possible arrival of
> the Messiah in this time of crisis," Rabbi Ovadia Yosef told his
> listeners.
> 
> 
> [ So, was it the rabbi that gave his dreams to Judaism or was it
> Judaism that gave the rabbi his dreams? ]