The pop princess also looks set to get back “Into the Zone” of Kabbalah, as our insider tells us that “Madonna sent her lovely letter of support suggesting she start re-reading the literature to find who she really is once again.”

Madonna’s Fake Judaism

 

By Ben Shapiro

 

Apparently, Judaism has found a new representative: Madonna. “I am an ambassador for Judaism,” Madonna proclaimed this week while visiting Israeli President Shimon Peres. In particular, Madonna sees herself as an ambassador for Kabbalah, a mystical school of Jewish thought.

Never mind that Madonna isn’t Jewish. Never mind that Jewish thought itself prohibits the study of Kabbalah unless one becomes expert in all other areas of Jewish law, practices all 613 of the Jewish commandments (Madonna has broken at least eight of the Ten Commandments) and is at least 40 years of age. Never mind that Madonna’s brand of Kabbalah is a concoction of fallacious philosophy and creepy voodoo.

           

No, Madonna is well-qualified to be spokeswoman for Judaism. “You don’t know how popular ‘The Book Of Splendor’ is among Hollywood actors,” Madonna told Peres, ignoring the silent retching of thousands of Jews worldwide. “Everyone I meet talks to me only about that. I am an ambassador for Judaism.” Fellow Hollywoodite and faux Kabbalah devotee Ashton Kutcher told Israeli newspapers that Kabbalah made him a better actor – one shudders to think how much worse “The Butterfly Effect,” “The Guardian,” “A Lot Like Love,” “Cheaper By The Dozen” and “My Boss’s Daughter” would have been without Kabbalah to guide Kutcher’s masterful performances.

This is perhaps the most audacious usurpation of Judaism we’ve seen yet by a Kabbalah center graduate. Ambassador? When did she get citizenship?

Ignoring the fact that it’s more than just a little patronizing to Jews-by-choice to declare yourself an “ambassador for Judaism” just because you give over excerpts of Kabbalah Centre philosophy (or, perhaps, the week’s “spiritual forecast”), for Madonna to consider herself the “voice” of any Jewish community or of “Judaism” is just not realistic. Rabbis in Israel are so furious over her visit that one respected kabbalist wouldn’t even mention her name. One can not be an ambassador for a group against that group’s will.

Madonna – or should we say Miriam – has been spending the Holy Days in the Holy Land. Along with all the other brainwashed actors that fall for the Bergermeister.

Malawian boy introduced to Kabbalah

You’re never too young to become a Kabbalah devotee as far as Madonna is concerned. Her soon-to-be-adopted African son, David Banda, is already wearing the cult’s red string bracelet, said to ward off evil spirits. Meanwhile, she’s mounting a publicity blitz to ward off criticism she took the child from his Malawian father without explaining what adoption means.

last July that Madonna was giving millions of dollars to the Kabbalah Centre, an IRS sanctioned religion founded by Karen and Philip Berg. The Kabbalah Centre is not part of Judaism; it is an independently organized religion.

Madonna’s largesse comes through her Ray of Light Foundation. She parks money there tax free, then distributes it to other causes. Wednesday’s announcement that she’s going to build an orphanage in the African country of Malawi is linked to the planned curriculum: Kabbalah.

Madonna, you see, is hooked on Kabbalah.

The newest tax filing for the Ray of Light Foundation shows she hasn’t given up on the Bergs yet. She gave their Spirituality for Kids branch $268,106 in 2005. Madonna donated another $184,250 to the Kabbalah Centre itself. And that’s what she’s reporting publicly, and in the United States.

Well while still wasting her money and throwing it down the tubes at things like Kabbalaah, at leat she has some adivors left who told her to stay away form the Bergs before they self-destruct.

Beyond absurd. Beyond dumb.  Teaching her fake kabbalah of materialism and me-centered spirituality to Malawi children. Its like spiritual colonialism only stranger because she is passing on a soft cult (kabob center) and personality cult.

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NEW YORK (August 3, 2006) — Madonna is always reinventing herself. In her latest role, she is a humanitarian with an ambitious plan to care for orphans in the African country of Malawi…..,

“One of the main precepts of Kabbalah is that we’re put on this Earth to help people,” she says. “And your job is to figure out how you can help, and what it is that you can do.”

An orphan care center, being built with a goal of feeding and educating about 1,000 children a day, will have programs based on Spirituality for Kids, Kabbalah’s children’s program, according to the magazine.

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Madonna goes to services

During her recent tour of the Big Apple, the Ritchies and children Lourdes and Rocco attended services at the New York Kabbalah Centre.

Britney Spears has given up on her Kabbalah studies saying she has found a new religion in her family.

Soon after the birth of baby Sean Preston Britney Spears took him for blessing to Hindu temple in L.A.

Britney Spears, who was introduced to Kabbalah in 2003 by Madonna, has left a brief note on her site saying, “I no longer study Kabbalah (sic), my baby is my religion.”

Britney Spears didn’t clarify if she meant her eight-month-old son or the child she is currently pregnant with, according to contactmusic.com.

Now Birt will be part of the normal religion of Hollywood, which is Self-Worship.

Just came across this quote from the author of Kabbalah for Teens, Louis Belmont:

"Young people, when they're going through changes, are hard-wired for a mystical experience, and that's becoming less and less available in the materially oriented, hyperfact-digitized world we live in," says Louis Belmont, a Los Angeles-based tutor and author of "Kabbalah for Teens."

Belmont dismisses the idea that this religious movement is just a celeb-fueled fad. "This tradition reveals a mystical dimension to everyday experience, and I want to present a body of wisdom that's existed and evolved for thousands of years," he explains.

That many parents are suspicious of kabbala makes it only more intriguing for young people. "When Mick Jagger was asked for a definition of rock 'n' roll, he said it was any music your parents don't like," Belmont says. "In the same way, kabbala can be something that a young person can feel that they've discovered."

WHile I agree with him that teens are looking for depth and meaning—while seemingly buzzed-out on myspace, drugs, and sex— I disagree completely with his "summation" that Kabbalah is this kind of wisdom that has evolved for thousands of years. It is totally misleading and innacurate.

Judaism reveals the mystical in everyday, just that the kind of stuff that passes for Judaism at most temples and synagogues is not at all in touch with the real essence of Judaism, the Torah. The Torah clearly outlines that each day and each moment is something mystical, and we don't need the kabbob center or Kabbalah for Teens to tell us this.

Case against Kabbalah Center director closed

The Tel Aviv Magistrates Court decided on Tuesday to close the investigation against Shaul Youdkevitch, director of the Tel Aviv Kabbalah Center, who is suspected of extorting money out of a dying cancer patient.

The case was closed after the woman’s husband, who filed the complaint against Youdkevitch, decided to drop the charges. (Avi Cohen)

Kabbalah victim: I couldn’t keep quiet

Exclusive Ynet interview: Boris Zunis painfully recounts how Kabbalah center bilked his dying wife Leah.’ I felt that if I don’t pay the money I would be contributing to her death,’ he says
Eli Senyor

Kabbalah guru Shaul Youdkevitch cynically manipulated a dying woman for the sake of greed, the woman’s husband charges in an exclusive, heart-rending interview with Ynet.

“When I saw a television show about Kabbalah, where he (Youdkevitch) admitted he’s making millions, I felt I couldn’t keep quiet,” says Boris Zunis, whose wife Leah died earlier this year.

Zunis contacted a lawyer and filed a complaint that led to Youdkevitch’s arrest earlier this week on suspicion of fraud. The bereaved husband says his wife, too, realized she was deceived by the Kabbalah center and talked into donating tens of thousands of dollars in the hopes of overcoming her illness.

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“She asked me to appear in court because she realized she was going to die and felt terrible because of the entire situation,” Zunis says.

‘Positive energies’

Leah Zunis was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 1995 and began attending lessons at the Kabbalah center in 1996, her husband says. She increasingly became drawn to the Kabbalah world and said it gave her “positive energies” as she was fighting the disease, he says.

“In 1999 doctors discovered the cancer was spreading to the liver, and then she became frightened and panicked,” Zunis says. “It was natural that she turned to Moshe Rosenberg (previous Kabbalah Center director.) She heard all the lectures about getting rid of cancer and how to remove the disease.”

Zunis says Rosenberg told the couple a monetary contribution was needed in order to cure the disease.

“He told me we need to donate money. I asked how much, 5,000, 10,000 shekels? He said it must be a painful contribution…so that the entire family feels the financial burden,” Zunis says. “He wasn’t satisfied with the amount I offered and said 36,000 dollars.”

Zunis says he told Rosenberg he did not have this amount, at which point Rosenberg suggested Zunis leave his job and start working at the Kabbalah center as a volunteer.

“I told him I have three kids at home, a mortgage…I said I couldn’t stop working because there was nobody else to support the family,” Zunis says.

‘She begged me to contribute’

However, Zunis said he could not resist his wife’s pleas and eventually caved in.

“She came to my crying, saying ‘it’s my health and my life.’ She really begged, and her tears broke me. He promised me health and complete recovery if we paid the money. I felt that if I don’t pay the money I would be contributing to her death.”

However, despite the initial contribution, Leah’s condition did not improve. By 2002, tests revealed the cancer was spreading to her bones and lungs. Zunis says she became increasingly frightened and turned to the current Kabbalah Center Director, Shaul Youdkevitch.

“She went there on her own, and when she came back she told me Youdkevitch said another contribution was needed,” he says.

“His move was even crueler, because he already knew we contributed money before and he knew the family’s situation wasn’t good,” Zunis says. “Yet cynically and without shame, he demanded another 25,000 dollars.”

Zunis says he told his wife he had no more money to give, but she then turned to her elderly mother and used her savings to pay Youdkevitch.

“By 2003 she was using a wheelchair and in June 2004 she was confined to bed, but she still believed in them,” Zunis says. He recounts how he told his wife to turn to the Kabbalah Center for financial help, a request she refused. Still, Zunis says he later went to speak to Youdkevitch without informing Leah.

“He told me he couldn’t touch the money we already donated but said he’ll find donors and help us with their money,” Zunis says. “We left with a promise, but he kept on dragging it. Every time he said he had no donor.”

Leah eventually succumbed to the illness and passed away on August 8 of this year.

Kabbalah center rejects ‘false charges’

The Kabbalah Center’s attorney, Amikam Hadar, rejected Zunis’ charges and said they were false. In a statement, Hadar said the Center’s members helped Leah Zunis and encouraged her, both spiritually and financially. Boris Zunis also received financial assistance when his late wife required treatment abroad, Hadar said.

“Center members prayed for her health every day…at the same time, they told Leah to continue the regular treatments. Moreover, a month before she passed away, she called and personally thanked Center members for their actions. It’s a pity such unfortunate incident led to such false complaint,” the statement read.

Eli Senyor reports for Ynet, Israel’s leading news website