'Thought to be a reincarnation of a secular lawyer, the ultra-Orthodox judges are calling for the dog to be put to death.
Weeks ago, the large hound reportedly wandered into a courtroom in the very religious Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim. Allegedly wreaking havoc on the proceedings and scaring visitors, the dog refused to leave the court. Now it appears the judges of this rabbinical court are out for retribution.
One judge recalled the tale of a lawyer in decades past who was cursed by the court for his anti-religious tendencies. The judges hoped that the lawyer's secular spirit would be reincarnated as a dog, considered an impure animal in some Jewish traditions. When the pooch wandered into the court a few weeks ago, several years after the lawyer's death, they feared it was his reincarnation coming to cause chaos.
So in what was surely an unfair trial, the judges called for local children to stone the dog to death. Fortunately, the hound escaped before the horrific punishment could be delivered'.
Couldn't resist this morsel. A lawyer disapproved of by judges dies and is reincarnated some years later as a dog, who then returns to the courtroom to irritate the judges. OK, I follow.
Because the dog behaves like a lawyer and doesn't obey the instructions to exit the courtroom the caninophobes condemn the dog to death by stoning.
Dog hammers home the point that he really is the reincarnation of a human because he doesn't hang around for the punishment. Not hangdog.
The judges get the facts right, the dog's a guy. So shouldn't they enter into a dialogue with him? Where's the spirit of argument and discussion, questioning and debate that includes the has-been lawyer? Not to mention the right to a fair trial.
But maybe they're wrong and it's just another case for the SPCA.
The dog escaped on all fours and I don't think he was wearing a yarmulke....
