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The Birkat haMinim - hebrew: ברכת המינים - "Blessing/Curse on the Heretics"
>is a curse on heretics (non-jews, Christians etc) which forms part of the jewish rabbinical liturgy.
>It is the twelfth in the series of eighteen benedictions (shemoneh esreh) that constitute the core of prayer service in the statutory daily 'standing prayer' of religious jews.
>In modern israel ... the orthodox rabbinate ... considers Christianity to be halakhically idolatrous.
>Israel Yuval, reviewing Ben Johanan's book, recalls that even the otherwise liberal orthodox intellectual yeshayahu leibowitz railed, at the time of the Eichman trial, at attempts to justify
'the vermin [sheretz] of Christianity'
>and reminded his interlocutor, David Flusser, that
"We curse Christianity three times every day."
