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| Thursday, September 04, 2003 |
Just phone it in: Ever wish you could just stay at home on Shabbat and send someone to synagogue in your place? No? Well, some of us at the Jewsweek office have and a cellular company in India has the perfect solution. Bombay-based BPL Mobile is offering its subscribers the opportunity to pray for them. For the small fee of $1.10, pus additional charges for air time, subscribers can phone in their prayers to the BPL operators who will, in turn, recite prayers for them at the city's most popular temlpe. After the prayer, the temple sends the BPL customer a receipt, special offerings and a portrait of the elephant-headed god Ganesh.
Surprisingly, this concept is not entirely foreign to the Jewish faith. On sites like Aish.com, Web surfers can have Aish staffers place personal prayer notes into the crevices of the Western Wall.
Ah, the beauty of using technology just the way God intended.
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