Sunday, July 01, 2007 In the world of Jewish music, the Carlebach name is one of great fame. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was the father of modern Jewish music and his compositions have been selling years after his petirah (“passing”). Carlebach minyanim (“prayer quorums”) have been springing up all over the globe and people who never even met him as well as people who barely knew him,
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It' s not enough to go after the underlings and peons. We need to go after the leaders to fix the problems with these cults. When Shea Hecht tangled with me, little did he know that his doing were to be posted up here and on Amazon's site. It's not a matter of getting mad, it's a matter of getting even and setting the story straight.
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Rick, You were quite correct to tell me that the kiruv organizations are essentially flops. It’s true. On one video that I had of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Shlomo said that “If they get 100 people to listen to an outreach worker and 2 remain Jewish, the kiruv organizations consider it a success.” Shlomo went on the decry “professional outreach.” He said, “Have you ever hea
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I have to reformulate my opinion about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach because of a number of reasons. Years ago, Shlomo, Yeshua Witt and myself were in the TV studio in Tel Aviv and I wanted to go on TV with them. Shlomo didn’t want to make the decision himself and he delegated the decision to Yeshua who said no. If I had been allowed on TV (I was seen on TV by friends of my parents when I was playing to
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One of the basic problems I’ve had is that I tend to lack spine and I don’t put my foot down and tell people just what I believe. I have been hospitalized in mental hospitals 3 times over the recurrent problems I’ve had with Jesus and the Christian community’s efforts to recruit me into the army of Christianity. The first time I was hospitalized was when I went to CA with an old “friend”
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Diaspora Yeshiva is located near the Tomb of King David. It is a very run down facility and Rabbi Mordechai Goldstein rubs a lot of people the wrong way. He’s known for having a great lust for money. One thing they had going was the old Diaspora Yeshiva Band starring people like Ben Tzion Solomon and Avraham Rosenblum. It was a famous band years ago. I was at the yeshiva and li
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The question posed here is, “Why are these kiruv (Jewish outreach organizations) successful?” Basically the answer lies in the problems inherent in the current day and age’s culture. In the old days, very few Jews had drinking problems. Jews didn’t beat their wives or use drugs and the family unit was cohesive. Children respected their elders and the culture of the Jewish tradition passed down wh
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When Rabbi Schneerson was alive, he was considered to be the final redeemer by his movment or the Mashiach Ben David. After his passing, I heard a meshichist give a speech about how he was the Messiah ben Joseph. One of the arguments used against Jesus relates to how you can't be both a priest and a king. Conflicting lineages are cited. Similar with Rabbi Schneerson. He obviously couldn'
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I'm trying to look up where the Torah says to kill Amalek. Any help out there?
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The killing of Amalekites is not just a Chabad doctrine. It is a mitzvah in the Torah to do such but Chabad and Ponevez seem to be the only groups to make a big deal of it that I know of. And someone got killed over it a number of years ago. I consider this to be a dangerous doctrine and luckily the documents that I've read on the topic outside of Chabad explains it in such a way as to not b
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Yess was in a band called the Megama (Heb. objective, purpose) Duo. He was a guitarist and the lead singer. I went to one of their very first concerts in Jerusalem to critique the band. Some of his songs like, "My Zayde" ("grandfather") and "Call Your Mother" became hits. I did not know he was self-ordained. I had assumed he became ordained by Chabad but he&
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Over the last 12 years I have read scores of pieces of literature on Judaism. One of the topics I read about dealt with the issue of the Amalekites. One document I read talked about the nature of the psychology of that tribe. They believed in fate (kismet) and not Divine Providence or Hashgacha Pratit in Hebrew. There is a whole method to the Amalekite way. The mitzvah of killing Amaleki
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QuoteDan JJI'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. I was only at D'var
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Does anyone know the amount or percent of income an ICOC member has to pay the church? Also, is it based on gross or net income after taxes. I am poor and I never give my local church anything and no one complains. They love having me and they realize I need their help more than they need mine.
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Quotemjr40QuoteK.D. We have disinherited her but it did nothing to change her decision.... Most of the time people don't spend their whole life in a cult so there's hope. Where there is life, there is hope. That's something to hang on to.
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If the Chabad movement can and will ever move forward is doubtful as far as I can tell. Rabbi Schneerson died many years ago and no one has been appointed.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 The main problem with Ben Yishai was that the teachings ceased to be focused on the doctrines in Christianity and the focus of the movement no longer was rooted in the teachings and ministry of Jesus Christ but on the personality of Jack Hickman. And I think that’s a common thread in many cults. Someone told me, “Who knows who Jack is? A prophet, a priest o
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Quoteupsidedownnewspaper(I may have asked this of you before, richardmgreen. Is it Lubavich Chabad Judaism that is depicted in Potok's My Name is Asher Lev?) I don't know.
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I'm fed up with Chabad. That book they wrote was one piece of trash but their general attitude towards me is worse. They must have gotten a l of charity money thrown their way over the so-called "social service" work that they do.
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My handle is richardmgreen. I became a Senior Member of the forum several years ago and I have left a ton of documentation on the site in refererence to Chabad. You might want to try the document, "I Could Never Be Good Enough for the Movement" and look on for my book reviews. Pull up Confessions of a Jewish Cultbuster by Rabbi Shea Hecht and you can see all of my reviews which are ext
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I have the privilege of knowing Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach for some 20 years before he passed on. During that time, I had been going to his concerts for about 5 years on a steady basis and I played his recordings even when I wasn’t an active part of his movement. He also hooked me up with a rabbi who lived near me on LI, NY and I went to the rabbi’s shul after I came back to the US in late ’79.
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Monday, April 02, 2007 In the outset of this piece, I’d like to say that I didn’t know initially that Pastor Jack Hickman (aka. “Abba” – father - Yaakov Abensur) was gay. Hickman had always maintained that he was a celibate who was “complete by himself,” and didn’t need a wife or girlfriend. Around the time I was living in Deer Park, LI after I moved in with fellow cult members,
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 I have over 40 years worth of experience in dealing with Chabad Lubavitch. The first Hebrew school after public school program I went to was run by them at the time I was living in Brooklyn as a child in the mid 1960’s. All I have to show for my association with them is failure and problems, one after the other. I had a failed marriage from a girl I met t
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People who worked for Chabad laughed in my face and told me, "You'll starve." When I was with Shoresh Yishai, I always had a place to stay and food to eat. Similarly, I know someone who's in the International Church of Christ and he has problems holding a job. I asked a friend of his what would happen if he was down on his luck. The friend told me that my acquantaince w
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Quoterrmoderator No historic estalished Jewish denomination has ever recognized people with a Jewish background that have embraced an outside faith's belief system and docrines as simply "Jews" without qualification and the Israeli courts have upheld this denying such people the right to return as Jews to Israel. They might call themselves apostate Jews, or Christians, Muslims,
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Quoterrmoderatorandychee: There are black Jews, Chinese Jews, Russian Jews, American Jews, etc. etc. Yes, there are but these people all hav it in common that the origin of their stock was Israelite in origin having been descended from Jacob.
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Quotemikevru One month went by and the "teacher" calls up today and begins to pitch the next level of enlightenment to me. He says that if I want to find my way in life I need to continue to the next level of kabbala and buy all the Zohar books (in Hebrew) so that I can scan them. The first zohar booklet that I initially bought he says is to imporve my health. Now if I want happinness,
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Jews are not a race, nationality or simply an ethnic group, but historically and practically defined as a group of religious adherents. They might call themselves apostate Jews, or Christians, Muslims, Buddhists with a Jewish family background, but they are not simply "Jews" without qualification. Jews are part of the race of semites and the arabs are our kinsmen. We are an ethnic
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QuoterrmoderatorPlease don't start preaching here. McArthur is a fundamentalist Christian and has been controversial. According to his book. Twelve Ordinary MenJesus' not picking any of the Pharisees, Sadducees or scribes to be his apostles was a "condemntation of the Jewish establishment of his day."
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QuoterrmoderatorRaina: You are all born-again Christians and based upon your statement are actually Baptists by theology. Having a Jewish relgious background doesn't make you "Jewish," which is a religion not a race or nationality. It appears that some members of your church might be correctly called apostate Jews. That is, they were once Jewish, but have chosen to convert
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