Stoning Fido

Stone Age Justice

Sneaking into a courtroom and refusing to leave, a Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago.

One of the sitting judges recalled a curse the court had passed down upon a secular lawyer who had insulted the judges two decades previously.



Their preferred divine retribution was for the lawyer's spirit to move into the body of a dog, an animal considered impure by traditional Judaism.

Clearly still offended, one of the judges sentenced the animal to death by stoning by local children.

The dog however escaped.

Certain schools of thought within Judaism believe in the transmigration of souls, or reincarnation