Why Kabbalah?
Writing in the New York Sun, Lenore Skenazy uses the A-Rod-Madonna story to tackle the question of why celebrities are attracted to Jewish mysticism:
It happened to Madonna, it's happening to A-Rod, and for a while it even happened to Britney. One reaches the pinnacle of fame, fortune, and truly fabulous muscle tone, and what's left?Judaism.
Okay, so it happens to be the most esoteric expression of Judaism since the goose-shaped chopped liver: Kabbalah, a practice many American Jews will never even encounter.
What does Kabbalah have to offer our superstars, and why should we care? What do those superstars have to offer each other, and why do we care? And why did Guy Ritchie, aka Mr. Madonna, dress his kids in Yankee gear over the weekend?
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Much of the Kabbalah center’s published teachings seem to me to be warmed over est, with attachment to “the Rav” and ‘the Rebbitsin” added.
Whatever became of the Kabbalah Centre’s attempt to sue a prominent Jewish scholar for calling it a cult in print?
Much of the same “new age” insights were described many years ago in “The Perennial Philosophy” by Huxley.
If these insights are your thing, check out Landmark Education, which provides much more straightforward and non-cultish access to the same fundamental truths and much more without the mystical baggage of “benefits” from scanning Hebrew without understanding or insight.
“The truth ‘believed’ is a lie.”
“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.”
“The Tao that can be spoken of is not the Tao”
It’s easier to get into a room through an open door than through the wall.
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07/20/08 09:24 PM
Come to the Kabbalah Centre it might change your life. Don’t judge until you have all the facts. Madonna has changed her life around for the better. And the Kabbalah Centre is not Judism it is spiritual. Its about making a change in your life. Eliminating chaos.....