Wait…There Are Jewish Death Curses?

(NYT)

I'll advisedly accept there are a lot of things I am apprenticed of, but one affair I am abashed to be acquirements aloof now is that there are mystical Jewish curses. This comes up because Jewish Home baton Naftali Bennett aloof accustomed a letter claiming that one had been put aloft him for his behavior that are beneath than accepted amid the ultra-Orthodox set.

The bulletin accustomed at Bennett's appointment on Wednesday and declared that the senders invoked a "Pulsa Dinura," or "lashes of fire," adjoin him to accompany about his aboriginal demise.

"You will die you., The Pulsa Dinura has been done to you," the belletrist read. It promised that Bennett would end his canicule like above prime abbot Ariel Sharon, who has been in a blackout back adversity a achievement in 2006.

"Already, you will accept no accord at home," the letter continued. "A absinthian activity awaits you. From this day your activity is ruined."

I apperceive this is alarming and aberrant and all of that, but I've gotta say, this array of sounds like a passive-aggressive fatwa to me. Some actual ablaze analysis on the affair reveals that it is purportedly a kabbalistic anathema that comes about every so often:

"As the adage goes in Israel 'you accept not fabricated it in Israeli backroom until you've been accursed by the Pulsa DiNura.'"

I will save you a cruise bottomward an internet wormhole with this video, which shows some fanatics ambience the anathema aloft Ariel Sharon for abandoning from Gaza. It's above ridiculous. There's some chilling music, some awe-inspiring blush filtering, and some subtitles to advice you accept what's activity on. What I'm not apprenticed of is that this contravenes what we all apperceive to be a Jewish assumption inculcated in the Torah: Never ambition abuse aloft another.

Bennett receives afterlife anathema over non-Haredi behavior [ToI]