Devout Jews who feel guilty after visiting adult Websites now have help if they want it – an Israeli rabbi has composed a prayer for just such guilt.
"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," says the prayer composed by Shlomo Eliahu, the chief rabbi in the town of Safed.
Eliahu has told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth he responded to a mass of queries from orthodox Jews who fear adult Websites may put their family relationships at risk.
Eliahu has also recommended devout Jews to recite the prayer whenever they log onto the Internet, saying they could even program it to flash on their screens, "so they are spiritually covered whether they enter a porn site intentionally or by mistake."
One of Israel's chief Sephardic rabbis, Eliahu's daughter was one of 11 killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in the Moment café in Jerusalem. Over 50 more were injured in that bombing.
