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Aug 28, 2017
Hi-Tech blessings
There is a new app called "Tikkun" (in Hebrew), by which one can request a bracha on a variety of issues from a selection of rabbis. The selection of a specific rabbi will affect the price of the bracha, as will the selection of how the bracha should be transmitted - by video message, by audio clip or by a simple written note.
The variety of issues for a blessing request includes issues such as for finding a spouse, for health, , for "the month f Elul", against Ayin Hara, a priestly blessing, parnassa, fertility, business success, and more.
The selection of rabbis is also broad, though it seems to be dependent on what your issue is. I installed the app and it seems each issue has a different selection of rabbis to choose form. I guess each has his own specialty. In the options on the various issues I saw names such as Breslav messengers in Uman, rabbonim by the grave of Rashbi in Meron, Baba Baruch Abuchatzeiram rabbonim and Mekubalim from Shtefnesht, the rabbonim of Kupat Ha'Ir, Rav Baruch Dov Povarski, Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, among others.
According to Kipa, the prices range from the cheapest bracha at 101nis all the way up to 1500nis.
It seems the idea was adopted from another system (I am not sure if this was via an app or via some other service) in which people were requesting blessings and good wishes from celebrities, such as receiving a video from Bar Rafaeli wishing congratulations for a birthday or whatnot.
The people behind it say this is far more popular than the wishes from celebrities was. And, they have 20 Haredi programmers working on the app - after they spend the morning hours learning Torah in Kollel, in the afternoon they work on developing the app.
The variety of issues for a blessing request includes issues such as for finding a spouse, for health, , for "the month f Elul", against Ayin Hara, a priestly blessing, parnassa, fertility, business success, and more.
The selection of rabbis is also broad, though it seems to be dependent on what your issue is. I installed the app and it seems each issue has a different selection of rabbis to choose form. I guess each has his own specialty. In the options on the various issues I saw names such as Breslav messengers in Uman, rabbonim by the grave of Rashbi in Meron, Baba Baruch Abuchatzeiram rabbonim and Mekubalim from Shtefnesht, the rabbonim of Kupat Ha'Ir, Rav Baruch Dov Povarski, Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, among others.
According to Kipa, the prices range from the cheapest bracha at 101nis all the way up to 1500nis.
It seems the idea was adopted from another system (I am not sure if this was via an app or via some other service) in which people were requesting blessings and good wishes from celebrities, such as receiving a video from Bar Rafaeli wishing congratulations for a birthday or whatnot.
The people behind it say this is far more popular than the wishes from celebrities was. And, they have 20 Haredi programmers working on the app - after they spend the morning hours learning Torah in Kollel, in the afternoon they work on developing the app.
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TWENTY programmers! Is it an app or an operating system?
ReplyDeleteNeither. It's a scam.
DeleteAnd the print method is not a scam? (rhetorical satire)
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