New York, NY – A new iPhone application allows users to type personal prayers into their phones, which are printed out by a rabbi in Jerusalem and placed in the Western Wall, just in time for Yom Kippur.
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The mobile-app “Send a Prayer” is run by Jewish Web site Chabad.org and mobile-development firm Munera, and costs 99 cents.
More than 1,000 prayers have been sent on a virtual pilgrimage since the app was launched before Rosh Hashanah — 10 percent of them from the New York City area.
“Everything in this world was created for a divine purpose. All forms of modern technology can and should be harnessed to make the world a better place,” explained Meir Simcha Kogan of Chabad.
One can also send a prayer to the grave of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson in Cambria Heights, Queens. A rabbi prints and delivers prayers.
And you don’t have to be one of the chosen people to participate — all denominations are allowed to take part.
“There is definitely a new generation of young people searching for meaning and ways to come closer to God,” Kogan said.
Wow! thats really an amazing thing! i’m sending one to each.. It talks in seforim about davening by the kvarim of tzadikim before the yomim tovim.
why does a rabbi have to print it out? why don’t they just give the rebbe an iPhone and he can read it himself?