Jews for Judaism (Page 70)

Seeing God

Rabbi David Aaron*, in his most provocative book, Seeing God, relates the following dialogue with his son:"My three-year-old son was watching me pray one day, trying to imitate my movements, pretending he was also praying. Then out of the blue, he blurted out, "Daddy! I just saw God's feet." I didn't know what my immediate response should be to this, but quickly I decided that truth was my best option. "Yehuda," I said, "You couldn't have seen God's feet. God doesn't have feet." He seemed star

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What is a Noachide?

What's a Noachide? Find out in this post. What is a Noachide? The Seven Universal Laws that were conveyed to all of mankind through primordial man (Adam) and handed down to Noah, form the basis of God's moral expectations of mankind transmitted through the Torah. Those who choose to live by these principles are "Noachides".

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Inside Hollywoods Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part Four

How did a family of middle class mystics end up with matching mansions in Beverly Hills? Our final installment examines how the Kabbalah Centre is pouring millions into a network of businesses controlled by the Bergs and their minions. The public image of the Kabbalah Centre is a mishmash of celebrities, $26 red string bracelets, and bottled water imbued with curative powers. But there is another side to the organization the public never sees. In the last part of our series about the Kabbalah C

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Jun 4, 2025 — 7 min read

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part Three

The Kabbalah Centre and its network of businesses, both nonprofit and commercial, are closely controlled by an intimate coterie that includes founders Philip and Karen Berg, their sons Yehuda and Michael, and a handful of consiglieri of unimpeachable loyalty. The leading light of the latter group, the most effective in the care and feeding of the Centre’s growing roster of celebrity members—and its biggest donors—is Madonna’s personal Kabbalah teacher, Eitan Yardeni. When she appeared on Dateli

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Inside Hollywoods Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part Two

For an outer-borough New York City couple of uncertain background and qualifications, Kabbalah Centre founders Philip and Karen Berg have done quite well for themselves. An elderly man in a white overdress and a woman in an ill-fitting wig, they secretively rule over a tax-exempt organization the true value of which can only be imagined. Tax documents filed between 2000 and 2003 show assets of approximately $60 million for five of the nonprofit entities controlled by the Bergs. (The Centre did n

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Jun 4, 2025 — 11 min read

Inside Hollywoods Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part One

On a clear spring night in April 2004, Madonna, Guy Ritchie, Ashton Kutcher, and a gum-snapping Demi Moore stood on the dais in a banquet room at the Westin Diplomat hotel in Hollywood, Florida, facing the 2,500 Kabbalah Centre congregants who had paid as much as $4,000 each for the “Pesach Experience,” the Centre’s Passover retreat. Lesser Kabbalah lights Marla Maples and Sandra Bernhard were also in the house. Let's peek inside Hollywood's hottest cult. Madonna, looking, in the words of one o

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Jun 4, 2025 — 6 min read

Chapter 22v - Bloodshed and suffering

Continued from Chapter 22u Bloodshed and vicarious suffering: The Torah view The blood shed is all-important in the symbolic ritual of animal sacrifice done in the Temple, but forgiveness of sin can be obtained anywhere without the sacrificial aspect. The sin-offering can help make atonement by being part of the Temple ritual, but it is not required for forgiveness. Only sincere repentance is required. Repentance is a turning point of the heart and mind from sin. This is made clear in Psalms

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