New York – Claim: Israeli Rabbi Put Death Curse on Obstfeld

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    A friend of the Obstfeld family told Haaretz on Sunday that Obstfeld, 55, was murdered as the result of a conflict with an Israeli rabbi who had cast a 'pulsa denura' death curse on Obstfeld.New York – The mysterious death of an Orthodox Jewish millionaire on June 9 in New York has sparked a whirlwind of rumors, even though the medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.

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    Solomon (Shlomo) Obstfeld fell to his death from the 19th floor of his posh Manhattan apartment, and while New York police have yet to close the case, Obstfeld’s family members and close friends believe he was murdered and have hired a private investigator to look into his death.

    A friend of the Obstfeld family told Haaretz on Sunday that Obstfeld, 55, was murdered as the result of a conflict with an Israeli rabbi who had cast a “pulsa denura” death curse on Obstfeld.

    According to the police investigation, no ladder or chair was found near the spot from which Obstfeld plunged to his death, a fact that bolsters the family’s belief that he was murdered.

    At this point, however, it does not appear that police are taking the family’s suspicions seriously.

    Many in New York’s Jewish community are wondering whether a devout Orthodox father of five would take his own life.

    “Suicide is not a common act by an Orthodox person – it is forbidden in Judaism,” a friend of the Obstfeld family told Haaretz. “He was a very happy and successful man, who contributed to the community. There were no signs that he suffered from depression. On the contrary, he did not leave a note, will, letter or any other sign of suicide. If he had committed suicide, he certainly would have left something behind.”

    According to his associates, Obstfeld had several regular business chats in the hours before his death, including a long telephone conversation with a business colleague and had recently three luxury apartments up for sale for a combined 6.5 million dollars.

    A person close to Obstfeld said he had complained of an Israel rabbi living in the United States to whom he had rented an apartment at a below-market price. The rabbi allegedly did not pay the rent over a long period of time and this led to a serious feud between him and Obstfeld.

    After Obstfeld evicted the rabbi, the rabbi allegedly told friends that he had cast a “pulsa dinura” death curse on Obstfeld.

    A friend of Obstfeld claimed that the rabbi returned to Israel around the time of Obstfeld’s death.

    “We spoke with Obstfeld a lot recently, and despite the fact that the rent dispute disturbed him, he did not seem depressed and it did not seem like he had problems,” Obstfeld’s friend said. “He had many plans, he was young, he had a good family and good business. I have no doubt that these men [the rabbi and his associates] were behind this and I could be next in line, because they have no inhibitions.”

    The New York Daily News reported that Obstfeld was connected with former Israeli prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert and also had ties with Austrian businessman Martin Schlaff, who attended Obstfeld’s funeral.

    Israeli police suspect Schlaff of having bribed Sharon and want to question him.

    It has also been reported that Olmert visited Obstfeld’s office two weeks before Obstfeld’s death.


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    srgflorida
    srgflorida
    13 years ago

    where is the wife and kids

    Eli
    Eli
    13 years ago

    The Rabbi was not names in this article, if anybody has the name please post. Boro Park residence should be aware not to rent him. Nobody wants a death wish, from a non-paying tenant.

    munchickjack
    munchickjack
    13 years ago

    and the mystry continues……..

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Its Rabbi Pinto a kabalist who comes to the US a lot from Israel

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    It is very weird that someone would kill someone for being evicted for any reason, it just doesn’t make sense. Also, a Rabbi who lives in someones apartment for a long time without paying rent is unable to kill someone with a “pulsa”, that’s bs.

    boroch
    boroch
    13 years ago

    Shlomo was such a huge Tzaddik. He was definantely murdered. We must fine the murders of this special holy Yid.

    Yitzchok
    Yitzchok
    13 years ago

    who ever believes in these kinds of “bubbe meinses”. come, I have a bridge to sell you.
    This is a big loss for the Obstfeld family and for the community.
    “min hashomayim tenachameihu”

    Tzi Bar David
    Tzi Bar David
    13 years ago

    Someone had a “death wish” for him, but I doubt it was the rabbi.

    Eli
    Eli
    13 years ago

    From WIKI, Recent use of Pulsa diNura:
    In July 2005, the Israeli media, without citing sources reported that opponents of the Gaza pullout plan recited the Pulsa diNura in the old cemetery of Rosh Pina, asking the “Angel of Death” to kill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Six months later Sharon suffered two strokes and is currently in a coma, fighting for his life. Of course, most analysts link this to his age, 77, and obesity.

    Reportedly, ten rabbis and kabalists, instigated the same curse at the gravesite near Safed several months prior to the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

    On November 7, 2006 the HaEdah HaCharedis said it was considering placing the curse on the organisers of the gay pride parade scheduled to march in Jerusalem on November 10, 2006. Israel Army Radio interviewed Rabbi Shmuel Papenheim who announced, “The Rabbinical Court has held a special session and discussed placing a ‘pulsa denura’ on those who have had a hand in organizing the march.”

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Between Olmert the crook, and this crazy so called Rent cheating “rabbi” he must of been murdered

    AirGunner
    AirGunner
    13 years ago

    A “Pulsa Di Nura” is not a death curse nor is it voodoo as our Torah prohibits “magic” and “witchcraft” , its a petition to HaShem to enact divine justice. Without getting into all of the Kabbalistic aspects of it, you are asking HaShem to judge another person with the intent that they become better. And whoever is brazen enough to petition HaShem for a “Pulsa Di Nura” had better be full of Yiras Shomayim, because HaShem will also judge the person who is enacting the “Pulsa”. Too many people seem to be playing with this lately.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Looks like haaretz is also scared of this rabbi’s (shady) connections.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Oich mir a rabbi…

    reply to # 4
    reply to # 4
    13 years ago

    I understand ur opinion that pulsa denira should not be used. But ur opinion that there is no such thing in judaism is plain ignorance. Gedoiley hoachronim are nistapek if someone does a pulsa denura if he has a din roitzeach or not. But u know there is no such thing!?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Just wondering, What did he do for a living?!? …

    Observer 2
    Observer 2
    13 years ago

    Pulsa Nuras work quite well when followed up with a call to the mafia.

    Am Haaretz
    Am Haaretz
    13 years ago

    what is pulsa denura? mentioned in the Talmud? If so, where.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Does anyone know what the success rate of a “pulsa denura” is? I mean, are they 50% successful in rubbing out someone? Does it mostly depend on who the sorcerer is? Does it only work on fellow Yidden or can you bump off anyone or anything?

    Jimmy Hoffa
    Jimmy Hoffa
    13 years ago

    Italian or Israeli mafia? What is the difference between the two?

    NA
    NA
    13 years ago

    Say I want to bet on the long-shot Mighty Irish to show at Belmont and do a “pulsa denura” on all the other horses. I would donate 10% of my winnings to tzedaka. Is it doable?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    This is how it usually works, you make that “scary pulsa thing”, then you contact a hitman with your target, the hitman will then ask, is there a pulsa in place? if the answer is yes, the hitman will then ask for some kind of envelope to be delivered, once an envelope is delivered the hitman will then say, consider it done. But if a pulsa has not been made the hitman will say, leave me alone.. so to conclude the main thing is the Pulsa, if you got that you’re in business… now due to advice from my attorney I’m not really interested at the moment in selling the GWB, what I am looking for, is to hire a well organized individual to manage the place, excellent pay for the right person, no prior experience in managing toll booths necessary, willing to train, must be familiar with tying bundles with rubber bands..

    Pulsa Di Nura
    Pulsa Di Nura
    13 years ago

    Did the so-called Rabbi take out a Life Insurance policy on his victim MR Obstfeld?

    Pooshut gezugt
    Pooshut gezugt
    13 years ago

    Biggest loser beside wife and kids is Chai Lifeline Camp Simcha

    Shaya
    Shaya
    13 years ago

    Having spent two years learning in Eretz Yisroel during the early 60’s, I attended a
    Pulsa D’nura.Without going in all the details, I found out several months after that the
    person (who was cursed) was instrumental in establishing the FIRST mixed swimming pool in Yirushaliem. He died in a very terrible way.This curse works, certainly if it effects the Tzibur.

    anonymous
    anonymous
    13 years ago

    I don’t know Rabbi Papenheim but I am sure he is fine erlicher yid. My question is my mother died in Chelmno[gas vans], my father in Ghetto Lodz , my brother in Auschwitz and my uncle and my cousin in Auschwitz and others of my family in Izbica and Maly Trostinec and millions others. Why was not used this “pulsa denura” against Eichmann, Mengele, Heydrich and Himmler and of course Hitler. Bin Laden threatens Western democracies. It could relieve the CIA of its mission. Funny it is being used against Yidden but not against sone yisroel. New form of Yiddishkeit. a shame no one told me about the pulsa denura while I was in Buchenwald

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Shtiot!!!!! He may have threatened with a maluki but dont think he can actually make him fly over a 9 ft gate and make him fall to his death!! He was murdered!! The question is by whom? If it truly was a simple suicide why wouldnt the NYPD close the case?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Whoever knew Shloimy personally knows that he would never have committed suicide. He loved life and family too much for that. Who murdered him? Will we ever know the truth?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Interesting that no one who knows some real facts doesn’t talk . What’s up with the hit squad they saw on his block ? What’s up with the security he had hired two days before he died and that they were supposedly in the building while this happened?

    obscurring the real issue.
    obscurring the real issue.
    13 years ago

    All this talk about heeby jeeby voodoo like Pulsa Dnura is distracting from the real issue. Why did this man kill himself. Obviously he had some kind of Mental Health issue. It is a shame that Mental illness and depression, and desperation, carry such a stigma in our community that people avoid getting help when they need it. It is also a shame that as a community we do not make sure that Mental Health services are readilly available and accessible on a 24 hour basis for our own. Perhaps if Mr Obstfeld would have had someone to reach out to, he could have been convinced to hold off and seek treatment. It is a disservice to everyone to pretend that he had a heart attack or was murdered. Just because he looked happy on the outside does not mean that he was not suffering greatly on the inside. In the frum world, it is not acceptable to suffer from depresson or sadness – you are told to learn Shaar Habitachon or the like. We need to embrace the notion that mental illness must not be stigmatized and we should all encourage one another to seek treatment when needed. Being depressed does not mean you lack Emuna or Bitachon.

    a yid
    a yid
    13 years ago

    He had a pulsa d olmert or probably a pulse dat stopped

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Reply to # 25

    where r u getting your info?

    Chusid from Slutsk
    Chusid from Slutsk
    13 years ago

    As a chosid, did he not seek guidance from his rebbe?????

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    heeby jeeby pulsa powers… where are these magic-rabbis when you need them? Maybe they’ll be at the meeting for Rubashkin tonight…. 15th and 45th…

    actual Jew
    actual Jew
    13 years ago

    this one stinks. does not make sense that he killed himself. way too much going against that theory.
    that said, he was laying down with a lot of dogs and I fear that he got fleas. too sad for words for his family.

    Itche Meir
    Itche Meir
    13 years ago

    Pulsa denura:
    The Jerusalem Report magazine reported that a fellow cursed Yitzchak Rabin with a P.D. It arrived in my home two days AFTER Rabin was assassinated, too late for the magazine to withdraw it from circulation. In their article they were laughing their heads off about this crackpot who thought that because he said so, Rabin would be dead within a month. I kept that copy – I think that some day I will be able to sell it on EBay for at least a thousand.

    Ashkinazi
    Ashkinazi
    13 years ago

    The Tzadik was defiantly murdered you have to be insane to believe that he committed suicide, but for some nice boropark people its not a problem to smear somebody even if he is not alive,att; jealous people att; wanna bees att; big shots that like to play like they know everything, stop seeking happiness by burying other people it won’t work for too long & it will come back to haunt you.But in the meantime make the gossip enjoyable so that when you’ll be in other mouths it should be enjoyable as well..

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    No Tzadik would ever curse a fellow Jew. Besides using his own powers to bring the person to do Teshuva, he might be Mispallel to the Al-mighty to help bring the person back to the correct path. But to curse someone – let alone a fellow Yid – impossible. A Tzadik is saturated with Ahavas Yisroel. If he curses, then he wasn’t a Tzadik to begin with, so why should we fear such a curse?

    A request to the Al-mighty to do justice might be received. Here, the person requesting justice is one who didn’t follow the Al-mighty’s precepts himself, he stole from his landlord. He used the landlords assets to his benefit, and then didn’t pay for it. Why should his request to have his benefactor punished carry more weight than than the reward for his benefactors kindness to him, in allowing him to stay rent free in the first place!

    Millhorse
    Millhorse
    13 years ago

    Rich or poor. Denura or not. Life is a story of survival. Mental or physical injury internal or caused by others is inevitable…Question is ….how do we cope (and I for one do not care what others think of me…i have my own guidance system)…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    whoever anonymous is thats standing for mr O. has to be a family member. Is it possible that you didnt know your own. maybe it was the money thats so blinding. now that thats gone..did you really know him and what he was involved with or if he was weak enough to jump..search your soles….its time for moshiach..Hashem is only interested in your chasodim ..life is checks and balances..you have to pay the piper for the people you wrong in life and those you think you can step on..hashem knows the pain you cause others and it will not go unpunished…WAKE UP

    Saw Solomon
    Saw Solomon
    13 years ago

    I saw and spoke to shlomo the day before. he was kidding around like always .
    Was up in his apartment once and there is no way anybody less then 8 feet tall can go over the wall. Suicide is impossible. What happened i don’t have any idea .

    But the man was literally having a ball 2 days before he died.
    In addition , he had a few yeshivos/colletors that he was busy donating and doing chesed.

    כל מה דעביד רחמנא לטב עביד
    כל מה דעביד רחמנא לטב עביד
    13 years ago

    RICH MAN – NOW POOR FAMILY
    but hashem just loves him so much he wants him much closer to him,
    והמקום ינחם אתכם מכל צער – ותצליני היום וכל יום מכל מיני מרעין בישין

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    How is possible rabbi pinto renting a apt by obstfeld not paying rent this is a rabbi who gives you blessings