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Category Archives: Kabbalah Centre
Decoding Rabbi Philip Berg
ChatGPT says: Per Alliance Theory: Rav Philip Berg was a spiritual arbitrageur and mass-market alliance entrepreneur whose core innovation was to strip Kabbalah of Jewish enforcement while retaining its prestige, mystique, and promise of power. He was not reforming Judaism. … Continue reading
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Decoding The Kabbalah Centre
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory explains the rise of the Kabbalah Centre as a status-bridging spiritual technology that solved several elite problems at once. Here’s the decoding. First. It converted esotericism into social access Traditional Kabbalah is restrictive, slow, and status-policed. … Continue reading
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LAT: Jury orders Kabbalah Centre and former director to pay $177,500 in sexual assault lawsuit
LAT: Yehudah Berg, left, Rabbi Phlip Berg, Karen Berg and Michael Berg in 2009. Rabbi Yehuda Berg and the Kabbalah Center were ordered to pay $177,500 to a woman who alleged that Berg plied her with drugs and alcohol with … Continue reading
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The World Of Chabad-Lite
Chabad is an elite religion. It has long prided itself as the most intellectual of the Hasidim, the group most devoted to Torah study. Over the past 40 years, Chabad has devoted itself to outreach and it is easy to … Continue reading
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Grand Jury Investigates Kabbalah Centre
Roger Friedman reports: Madonna‘s “religion” and the main object of her charity giving, the Kabbalah Centre, is being investigated the IRS. Sources tell me that a federal grand jury has been convened to ask questions about the organization. I’ve personally … Continue reading
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BILL R. SEGURA VS RESEARCH CENTER OF KABBALAH
The case number in Los Angeles Superior Court is SC100189. From the LASuperiorCourt.org: Filing Date: 10/14/2008 Case Type: Intentional PI/PD/WD (eg. assault) (General Jurisdiction) Status: Pending Future Hearings 02/02/2009 at 08:30 am in department WEM at 1725 Main Street, Santa … Continue reading
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