At Jewish Joke Basic we take a crack at to pass on hilarious word past it occurs, and at the awfully time we take a crack at to be well-behaved of all aspects of Judaism (and other religions as well.) But past an bout occurs that fits the "imaginary but true" compartment and validates our saying that "you dead on can't make this stuff up" we quality errand bound to cut up it, in reality past it goes viral frozen the internet in a revere of hours.
In the carry on few days, important, tiny, and internet media conduct all marked and posted a photo of a Haredi man on a point wholly disguised in a plastic bag, which some media conduct characterized as a full dead body condom.
At ahead of time it was reported that the problem for the plastic bag was that he popular to avoid any contact with women, but gone hearsay indicated that he is a Kohen, and did it to yield with a halachic order by the late rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv that Kohanim necessity jacket themselves in plastic past carried by the wind frozen a necropolis to avoid becoming "tamei", or infected.
For a few days, contradictory stories were in the function of told about the bout. One understood the plastic bag was to avoid contact with women. Marginal understood it was to stock him from coming in contact with bread on Passover. An El Al lecturer understood that the photo was pure ten existence old but didn't refute that it was a real photo. Near here ten existence ago exhibit was a combined bout that led El Al to charge not to allow ultra-Orthodox Jews of bookkeeping plunge to "hermetically soak themselves in plastic personal belongings past carried by the wind frozen the Holon necropolis in order to avoid ritual poison."
El Al obvious "give ground refuge considerations do not allow for passengers to board such as disguised in sealed plastic personal belongings."
Still, in 2002 a give ground rock band got wearing a exciting quarrel with a Haredi passenger who attempted to fly wrapped in plastic, according to Haaretz. The crusade at the end of the day led the pain to turn the point involvement.
The mystery appears to conduct been solved yesterday past the man in the story gave an opinion poll to YnetNews.com, the internet site of the Israeli copy Yediot Aharonot. In the opinion poll, he recognized that the photo is real, the give ground to Israel took place early Passover, and that he wrapped himself in plastic honestly to rehearse his rabbi's guidelines not to fly frozen cemeteries.
As Itzchak Tessler reported,
The Kohen, backward a at all Jew who embraced Clich Judaism and asked to rest nameless, told Ynet of his want service in the Israel Reinforcement Forces, somewhere he said sensitive posts. In 1983, as a take of awareness, the Air Lock manage gave him the "crack to study in a yeshiva at the rate of the Air Lock, which paid my salary for the two and a shared existence I deliberate in the yeshiva."
At the back his studies, he returned to the army for 10 especially existence - "an unprecedented move in the Air Lock," he says.
