Rabbi Offers Prayer for Web Porn Browsers
 

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli rabbi has composed a
prayer to help devout Jews overcome guilt after
visiting porn web sites while browsing the Internet.

"Please God, help me cleanse the computer of viruses
and evil photographs which disturb and ruin my
work..., so that I shall be able to cleanse myself (of
sin)," reads the benediction by Shlomo Eliahu, chief
rabbi in the northern town of Safed.

Eliahu, quoted by Israel's largest daily newspaper
Yedioth Ahronoth, said he had responded to a deluge of
queries from Orthodox Jews worried that the lure of
Internet sex sites was putting family relationships at
risk.

The rabbi recommends that Jews recite the prayer when
they log on to the Internet or even program it to
flash up on their computer screens so they are
spiritually covered whether they enter a porn site
intentionally or by mistake.