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Inside Hollywoods Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part Four

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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Zalman Kravitz

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

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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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Inside Hollywoods Hottest Cult - The Kaballah Center: Part One

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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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Three Divine Echoes: Singularity, Plurality and Oneness

Three Divine Echoes: Singularity, Plurality and Oneness

Hear O Israel, the L‑rd our G‑d, the L‑rd is one (“echad”) Deuteronomy 6:4 We usually think of the cosmic struggle in terms of good versus evil. But according to the Kabbalists, good and evil are but spinoffs of unity and divisiveness. G‑d is the ultimate oneness, and everything G‑dly in our world bears the stamp of His unity. Evil, simply stated, is the distortion of this oneness by the veil of divisiveness in which G‑d shrouds His creation. Creation, as described in the teachings of Kabbala
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - Part 1

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult - Part 1

Inside Hollywood's Hottest Cult (Kabbalah) Part One: Red String Theory A four-month Radar investigation reveals how a renegade rabbi and his striver wife ended up atop a multi-million-dollar empire built on bracelets, bottled water, and Madonna. Radar Magazine/June 15, 2005 | By Mim Udovitch 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 t
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz