Suing God..

"Fed up with the threats, tired of natural disasters, the state’s longest-serving state senator is using his legal muscle against who he says is the culprit — God. State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued the Almighty in Douglas County District Court last week.

Chambers, who skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often criticizes Christians, said he filed the lawsuit to show that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody…. "(courtesy of http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=314#respond)

How he wasn't afraid..?

Only in America...

....well may be also in Berditchev. R. Leivy Yitzhak is said to have called a Din Torah against God one Rosh Hashana. This boldness and closeness took a hold of Jewish imagiantion , see http://www.berdichev.org/history_of_the_kaddish.htm

Here is Leonard Bernstein's intepretation, http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function=detail&ID=96

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[yitz..]

also the Shpoler Zaide, see the other Yitz's post: http://heichalhanegina.blogspot.com/2007/09/zeide-sues-almighty.html "The Zaide sues the Almighty" (it's also mentioned on nehora.com)