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The Holy One Blessed be He said to the angel Michael,"Your nation has sinned!" Michael suggested to spare the nation because of the good ones among them, but the answer was, "I will burn them together with the good ones who did not protest." At this time Gabriel asked another angel, a Cherub, to bring the coals, took those coals and threw them on Jerusalem. However, since the coals cooled somewhat, the nation survived. They gave Gabriel sixty fiery lashes (pulsa dânura) and expelled him.Gabriel continued arguing on behalf of the Jewish people, and when he mentioned Daniel, the Holy One Blessed be He asked, "Who is he that is advocating on behalf of my children?" - and Gabriel was brought back.
We explore the notion of these fiery lashes and some adherents of Kabbalah developed the idea of invoking a curse against a sinner, which they termed pulsa deNura. The source for this modern ritual is not to be found in Kabbalah, but among the Hebrew magical manuals of antiquity, such as Sefer HaRazim and The Sword of Moses.
We attempt to understand how activists performed a “Pulsa Dinura” against Yitzhak Rabin shortly before his death in 1995 and have used it as late as last week on PM Bennett.