![]() ![]() ![]() The EBay auction page (still viewable on Haxton’s website) claims to document experiences from two previous owners, told in the first person and pasted back to back in the item’s description space. “But I could never say that it’s impossible because, obviously, there’s precedent for these things that are recorded in different religious traditions, including my own.” “It’s essentially a kook subject,” muses Rabbi Eli Schochet, a professor of rabbinic thought at L.A.’s Academy for Jewish Religion, which trains rabbis and cantors. “Dybbuk” literally means “an attachment, a cleaving to something” a dybbuk is thought to be the spirit of a person who, instead of drifting into the next realm, sticks around and enters the bodies of living people. The reason, experts say, is tied to a witch’s brew of trends and developments unique to the new millennium: A booming blog culture a growing interest in Jewish mysticism, particularly cabala and high-speed Internet connections that allow photos to be downloaded onto countless home computers.ĭybbuks have haunted Yiddish folk tales since the dawn of Judaism’s mystical movement in the latter half of the 16th century. Most often, discussions of dybbuks (as it is more commonly spelled) are accompanied by plenty of snorting skepticism - “I think I’m going to put my haunted Game Cube on EBay,” one Texan recently posted - but the number of those fascinated with the little wooden box continues to climb. ![]() “One person pleaded with me to get all images of the box off the Internet because they would provide an electronic portal for the spirit into every computer that visited the site,” he says. ![]()
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