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iPhone prayers to be sounded in Jerusalem
Tzofia Hirschfeld
Published: 20.02.10, 15:25
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1. "G-d heard your prayer in Jerusalem." ?????
Josh   (02.20.10)
Who dares to speak for G-d? I know that three times of year the men are to appear beforte Him but I don't think the iPhone counts. You know that the whole idea of a pagan idol is that a person speaks to it and through the idol the god who manefest himself in it can hear the appeal. Aparently the people at the kotel think technology changes things and people can use an iPhone the same way pagans use an idol. Women can;t sing at the kotel but an iPhone app can work as a pagan idol to a pagan idol wall concept that the wall transmutes into a capsule that G-d occupies forced to listen to every pagan, magic incantation and whim of man from a speaker. What if he hears it and decides to curse you for it? LOL Arrogant Friarim!
2. Lighten up, #1. Nobody is confusing an iPhone with Baal.
Abe Froman ,   NY, NY   (02.21.10)
3. An example of technology & religion walking hand in hand
zionist forever   (02.21.10)
4. It's making a mockery of religion - for money
Israel   (02.21.10)
5. #2 Abe Froman the sausage king lives in Chicago
Josh   (02.21.10)
Baal could have curse the Tents of Jaacob accoding to the story, if they had magic in their tents which they now do, but what about sausages. Ps I saw how you lost his reservation to Ferris Bueller Chez Paul. Shame that was. They now have an iPhone app that could avoided the whole incident.
6. I see no problem.
Keren ,   IL-BR   (02.22.10)
If by this mean a person can feel he is more near G-d or has a feeling to be more near to his people or to his land,that's good and it is real . When we talk through Internet,we are far away to the people we are talking to and we even dont know their faces or voices,but the effects of our conversation are real. The principle of this phone is the same,so it is good. Communications nowadays are changing something very deep in our former ways of communicating and understanding things.
7. here is the link for the App
Ouriel Ohayon ,   tel aviv, israel   (02.22.10)
If you want to find the app it is called jPray and you can install it on http://getap.ps/jpray
8. Put this prayer on your Iphone
Avi ,   Israel   (02.22.10)
" I pray that these idiots will go get a life stop making money off gullable people who have long lost the ability to think logically " now put that on your speakers why dont you !
9. #8 Avi and logical thinking
Keren ,   IL-BR   (02.22.10)
I've never,but never!,read a talk back of yours with logical thinking.Never! You don’t even know what is logical thinking. All you do is spewing a blind hate throught your fingers taping ,because you can not stand with others pointing that you are a sinner before Israel.And you DO are!Iam sorry to tell you:gays are sinners!And you don’t hide nor regret your evil condition,as you have oftenly demonstrated.
10. Great Idea! - Could it be Noisy?
Christy ,   Boston, US   (02.23.10)
Sounds like a great idea and I bet people will use it, however it seems to have the potential to be a nuisance noise wise. 2 statements in article: prayers will be ".. sounded on loudspeaker opposite Jerusalem's walls at a time and day of the person's choice. " "...the loudspeaker will be installed in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood and will operate on medium volume." Won't people in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood, or people at the Wall itself be disrupted by prayers from loudspeaker?
11. #10 Don't worry.
Keren ,   IL-BR   (02.24.10)
Israel will not do something that could be a disturbance to people in a neighborhood. It is not a cultural habit of Israel.
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