Ok, I'm going to post a few more things. lol
Sometimes, it's about making connections... here's more on Ramtha, that I just saw today, even though I figure you don't care about that.
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mysticbourgeoisie.blogspot.com]
C'mon guy, what might one infer from the fact that Michael Laitman, and his outfit, Bnei Baruch, are giving serious consideration to this stuff? Do you think that Laitman, brilliant fellow that he is, just doesn't know what's going on with this? Got into it by mistake or something? Geez!
And do you really think you can separate this association with insane loopy crap from the body of kabbalistic knowledge [which is anything [i:acfa95b43f]but[/i:acfa95b43f] insane loopy crap, of course] on the BB site? How? Why? What can you say? That the kabbalah on this site is still undoubtedly reasonable, even though the, hello, [i:acfa95b43f][b:acfa95b43f]Kabbalist[/b:acfa95b43f], the world-renowned,"foremost" [b:acfa95b43f]Kabbalist[/b:acfa95b43f] [/i:acfa95b43f]at the helm of that site, is hobnobbing with these fruitcakes? Will you just ignore it and go on?
Now in case you didn't look up the Bleep connection on the BB site, here [
www.kabbalah.info]
Science meets Kabbalah indeed. That makes me afraid for science, it really does.
Here's another thing you might try. Get on google, and search for all the seemingly endless kabbalah sites out there, plus the ones that spell it about 10 different ways, especially the Q ones. Maybe you already did this, before you found BB, like I did? You see that Kabbalah is just like Judaism and Christianity, and any other religion you can name, in that there are endless varieties of it, countless various Ravs and Rebbes and Rabbis all spouting their own personal spin and calling it THE TRUTH, G-d's truth, blessed be He. Did it ever occur to you that Yehuda Ashlag and his son(s) had other students aside from Laitman? I myself didn't think about that, until someone had brought it up in the BB forum one time.
This is from wikipedia
Ashlag saw himself as fulfilling a quasi-messianic role in bringing Kabbalah to the world. His main disciples included his sons, Baruch Shalom, Shlomo Benyamin, and Rabbi Yehuda Brandwein.[/color:acfa95b43f]
Rabbi Baruch (d.1990), and Rabbi Brandwein (d.1969), both left students who are involved in spreading Ashlagian Kabbalah. Brandwein’s son-in-law, Rabbi Mordechai Sheinberger], founded a commune in Israel called Ohr HaGanuz ("The Hidden Light"), which combines Ashlag’s communal ideals with devotion to the spreading of Kabbalah.[/color:acfa95b43f]
Yes, Ashlag had an agenda. Please do read up on that.
and
After the demise of the Rabash [Baruch Aslag], several of his disciples continued to study according to his method, the most prominent of which are Rabbi Avraham Mordecai Gotlieb, and Rav Michael Laitman, PhD. One of his beloved students is D'zerke Rebbe Rabbi Aharon Brizel who is currently teaching this method in Jerusalem and in New York.[/color:acfa95b43f]
From time to time, people on the BB forum will ask about these others, as I said, and if Bnei Baruch is associated with them. They don't want to say much about it, but of course, the answer is no. So much for socialistic togetherness and a common vision. Now wouldn't it be a kick to hear what these other former students, and other kabbalists (they think they are such, but Laitman probably doesn't think so--no kabbalists outside of Israel, he's said) think of him and Bnei Baruch?
Perhaps our friend from katot.org will pay us a visit here, yes? He would have so much more to contribute, so many stories and insights he may wish to tell, straight from the center of things, so to speak. As for me, I'm just a bitter, mean-spirited, disgruntled english-speaking American who doesn't know much. He'll probably tell you I have it all wrong.