'Send A Prayer' iPhone App Beams Prayers To Rabbis (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

**See photos and video below**

A new iPhone application called "Send a Prayer" allows users to enter personal prayers into their mobile phones, then send them to a rabbi in Jerusalem who will print the prayers out, and put them on the Western Wall (or Wailing Wall) in time for Yom Kippur, a major Jewish holiday.

On its homepage, "Send a Prayer" says the application is,

"the only iPhone app that puts you directly in touch with God."

See a photo of the app below:

Users can also share their prayers with friends via email, and will soon be able to put up their prayers on Facebook and Twitter.

The 99-cent app, which is available on the iTunes store, was produced by Chabad.org, a Jewish web site, and was developed by Munera.

According to the New York Post, the app has been particularly popular in New York City.

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.

Users can also send a prayer to the grave of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson , a prominent Hasidic rabbi, who was buried in Cambria Heights, Queens. A rabbi in Queens prints and delivers prayers.

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Comments

[Christina Lane]

I thought this article was about the app— not about someone's religious orientation. A lot of what is being approved is highly disrespectful!

[pwiecek]

[pwiecek]

"the only iPhone app that puts you directly in touch with God."

How do you spell hubris?

[WilliamProc]

You think your savior has unlimited minutes in his calling plan? Does he use an iPhone at all; I'd think He would lean more to Boost 'cause it's cheaper. If He doesn't answer your prayer, was His call dropped? Or was He in a dead zone at the time?

These are important questions, don't snicker at them.

[DeeDubya]

Just what we need: Scientific technology that is used to perpetuate ancient superstitious practices.

We cannot have god and the internet at the same time.

Pick one.

It's really sad that so much of this religious superstition exists in the world today. It's exactly why we're not further along in our progress.

[scotsense]

you need an iphone app to be stupid now who would of thought

[MotherMiasia]

Boycott Israel and Israeli Apps.

[Dailykook]

Scre... you

[LemonGrass2]

you and your relatives wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for Israeli bio-technology, honey.

[SergeantRoss45]

I sincerely doubt this, don't fall for their hype my dear.

[PWM]

What technology would that be?

Wearing a box on your head.

[LemonGrass2]

When all is said and done, you have to hand it to Chabad: not only have they kept up in this digital era, but now they're now ahead of the fray.

[PlayTOE]

If prayers had the slightest effect, then this world would be a LOT different.

Besides, how can anyone believe in and follow a deity so callous as to with hold helping you till a Rabbi places a paper on a wall on the far side of the world?

The only thing dumber than religion, is the people who actually believe in a religion.

[SouthJerseySteve]

One could say your LACK of belief is as dumb as one's belief in any religion.

Assuming you live in the U.S., your lack of religion beliefs is your right, just as one's religious beliefs are our rights. This is why we have a First Amendment right to religious freedom. However, I draw the line at your comment criticizing another for their religious beliefs (or lack thereof).

[kwinter]

The First Amendment gives people the right to practice whatever silly religion they choose.
Nowhere in the Constitution is anyone granted a right to not be criticized or offended by those who see religion as nonsense ...... otherwise Thomas Paine would have been arrested in the 1790s for publishing 'The Age of Reason'.

[scotsense]

Most people have a lack of believe due to a very common factor, EVIDENCE of course the ironic factor is you invoking an amendment that allows an individual to criticize someone for their stupidity(sorry belief).

[PlayTOE]

Religion is not very comfortable with criticism. This is because the Religious really don't want to face up to the mountains *(literally) of evidence that the world was not made as their 'belief-book' says it was.

The Believers pay off is that they can mumble a few words *(or send them to a wall in Israel) and pretend that they did their bit to help out meeting the needs in this world. The Believers get satisfaction, but not one of their prayers helps anyone else.

There is no god to answer prayers. If there were, amputees would not all be left un-cured.

[HelloooCanada]

>One could say your LACK of belief is as dumb as one's belief in any religion. <

invalid logic.

[PWM]

Good point.

Whenever someone asks me questions like: do you believe in god?

I reply with the logical question: Can you define God without resorting to weak abstractions like omnipotent, being, etc?

In all these years no one has ever been able to offer anything but abstractions.

I particularly like: God is Love.

Premise: God is Love
Premise: Love is a subjective abstraction
Therefore: God is a subjective abstraction.

Next.

[cwhig1848]

"Define God." That's funny.

[Christina Lane]

Google is the king of shallow gestures calculated as public relations stunts for targeting their consumer base. I am **sure** everyone is just thrilled, considering the people you are targeting have zero access to your convoluted, ridiculously complicated digital gadget applications due to your inevitable focus on the [increasingly underage] adolescent market.

[Lyn91]

My dad sent one for me when I was really sick in the hospital! Cool app.