Israel's Central Elections Committee seems to think so!
Since someone reading a couple of my posts on prayer might see them as somehow suggesting that praying isn't effective, I want to share with you something that astonished me and shows that even avowed secularists at the very least acknowledge the power of prayer.
Justice Eliezer Rivlin, head of the Central Elections Committee, ruled Tuesday against the airing of a Shas' campaign ad which features the ultra-Orthodox party's spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, blessing voters. In the ad, Rabbi Yosef is saying that anyone who votes for Shas, "They, their sons, students and kin will all be blessed… with happiness and honor, good health and success." Section 122 of Israel's Election Law forbids any party to solicit votes via the promise of a religious blessing.
Now if the legislature really believed that the blessing is utterly meaningless, why did they bother codifying this rule? I mean is it prohibited to suggest that if you vote for us, you will be happier, wealthier, etc.? No, only because of it's promise that Rabbi Yosef will pray for the voters to receive these blessings.
Quite honestly I don't think much of the campaign, nor the Shas party for that matter (when did traditional Judaism become socialist?), but we can take example from Justice Rivlin and take the power of prayer seriously.
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