I'm also interested in knowing how your longer visit in a yeshiva was. I was myself close to sign up for a yeshiva before I touched the critical stuff about Chabad. Please write a bit of how it was there in details. How I see Chabad here is only as a nice couple, who indirectly wants the participants in their arrangements to fullfill more mitzvot.
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"

"you should tke a deeper look at yourself and examine why you follow something you yourself don't believe in." I don't follow it... I just pretend that I do, cos I don't wanna hurt him so greatly... of course its wrong to introduce him to lubavich, and he already has his oppinion about chabad... the thing that i hate mostly is the form of argumentation they use to con
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The most weird thing is that, when he tried to convince me that I should follow the same way as he does, he used scientific evidences. He told e.g. that the jews knew lots of things way before all the other peoples did. However it just turned out after I investigated those matters, that those proofs are minapulated in a very strong matter. I would expect that an organisation using cult-likened
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Ohr sameyach and AISH are organisation who constantly insist that science and religion are two parts which can be connected. At an AISH seminar in Israel, they teach Gerald Schroeder theory about how the scientists actually also believe that the world is 6000 years old. Moreover they come with very strange arguements which are either manipulated or twisted to a huge extend. Have any of you hear
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I'm really glad that I discovered this forum. My problem is as follows: It succeded the Ohr Sameyach rabbis to convert my brother to be an ultra-orthodox Jew. Before he went at their seminar, he had a lot of humor and was a big football fan, and I always went to the matches with him. Now however he has no sense of humor, and thinks that football is the worst kind of lightheadedness that e
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