My grandmother has been in the ground going on 2 years now. She still has more testosterone in her left pinky than you'll ever have flow throw your veins you arrogant, delusional, hoeass bitchmade fuckboy.
Regina King's Son Ian Alexander Jr. Dies by Suicide
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My grandmother has been in the ground going on 2 years now. She still has more testosterone in her left pinky than you'll ever have flow throw your veins you arrogant, delusional, hoeass bitchmade fuckboy.
some people will do anything for the money and fame. The article and the numbers tell you all you need to know about Regina King.
Blood sacrifice
You never learn huh.
Sacrifices, Flesh, and Blood
This guest post is part of our AARSBL blog series published in conjunction with the meetings of the American Academy of Religion & the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston Nov. 18-21. #AARSBL17 By Mira Balberg, author of Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbini
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"Several hundreds of people were watching as the priests struggled to light a fire on the altar and to get a wooden spit to pierce through the sacrificial lamb"
"Several different organizations that strive to build a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and to establish a sacrificial cult therein have been working together to produce and promote “Practice Passover Sacrifice"
"These events have become increasingly mainstream in Israeli religious-Zionist circles in the last couple of years, and are now endorsed by leading rabbinic figures as well as by political and municipal authorities. "
Learning is fun!! Check it out........
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Major Themes
An Incomplete and Infinite God
Kabbalists believe the universe began with a benevolent sacrifice by God. Unlike Christianity, which says God sacrificed his only son to save the world, Kabbalah teaches that God sacrificed himself so that the world and the human race might flourish. Kabbalists describe God’s sacrifice as tsimtsum, the Hebrew word for “withdrawal.”
Kabbalah: An Incomplete and Infinite God | SparkNotes
A summary of Themes in Anonymous's Kabbalah.
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Major Themes
An Incomplete and Infinite God
Kabbalists believe the universe began with a benevolent sacrifice by God. Unlike Christianity, which says God sacrificed his only son to save the world, Kabbalah teaches that God sacrificed himself so that the world and the human race might flourish. Kabbalists describe God’s sacrifice as tsimtsum, the Hebrew word for “withdrawal.”
PDF files from Jewish religion research institutions. The titles say it all.
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Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, And The Trial Of Mendel Beilis
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The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murder and Kabbalah
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Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, And The Trial Of Mendel Beilis
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The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murder and Kabbalah
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Hmmmmmmmmm..........
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True Sacrifice?????
True Sacrifice
The portion of Vayikra talks almost exclusively about the different practices of animal sacrifices. It says that the existence of animal sacrifices is...
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True Sacrifice?????
It was written by Yehuda Berg, elder son of Rabbi Philip Berg (generally referred to as “the Rav”), founder and top guru of the Kabbalah Centre. The seekers of Jewish mystical wisdom here tonight include a smattering of girls in micro-minis and Ugg boots, checking out the Juicy Couture and eating red-dyed sushi, and several Colin Farrell look-alikes, wearing Kabbalah chic: beat-up T-shirts with suit jackets, cords, cool sneakers, and newsboy caps. Among the somewhat bold-faced names are the men’s-wear designer Bijan, former Nicole Brown Simpson intimate Faye Resnick, and Donald Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, whose entrance causes Karen Berg, wife of the Rav, to crumple with joy.
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Trouble is, just as the kabbalist students are learning to exist on a higher plane, the Kabbalah Centre’s leaders seem to be falling for the material world whence these seekers have come. In their zeal to spread Kabbalah throughout the world (they already have some 50 Centres and satellite branches internationally), the Bergs, of late, have resorted to some unappealing commercialism, offering not only a catalogue’s worth of related but arguably extraneous products, but also the kinds of claims that some say give false hope. “They’ve taken the whole idea of Kabbalah and twisted it around,” says a disillusioned former student from the Centre. “Would you see the Dalai Lama taking out an ad and doing a party at Kitson?” asks another.
Kabbalah, which means “to receive,” traces its roots to medieval Provence and Spain. In those days, it existed on the far fringes of Jewish mysticism, which, in its broadest strokes, was about seeking a closer, more immediate relationship with God, as opposed to the traditional, legalistic approach of Orthodox Judaism. TheDeeply complex, dangerous even, Kabbalah was reserved for married Orthodox Jewish men over 40. As a prerequisite, they had to have mastered the entire rabbinic literature. Once they joined the ranks, they routinely fasted and rolled around naked in the snow in the name of self-abnegation before God. “It was esotericism par excellence,” says Allan Nadler, director of the Jewish Studies program at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey. “It was the equivalent of a truly elite monastery somewhere in the middle of nowhere.”
A Sting recording from the later years might be playing quietly in the background. There are lots of attractive things for sale: candles with names like “DNA of the Soul,” various ointments, cute baby clothes, energy bars. All the essential, glossy texts—written by the Rav or either of his two rabbi sons, Yehuda, 32, and Michael, 31—are on prominent display for easy perusal. Published in large print, sometimes with bold pink or red capitals, these revered texts are peppered with pop-culture references we’ve all heard of—A-Rod and Michael Jordan, pizza and chocolate cake—and phrases like “Big time!” and “Let’s Get Crazy!” But the promises are beyond what was previously thought possible: “total fulfillment,” “power of prosperity,” and “endless joy,” which, The Power of Kabbalah assures us, includes “the joy of sex and the ecstasy of chocolate.”
Some who seem to be seekers may simply be trying to catch a glimpse of Madonna, who has integrated kabbalistic symbols into the backdrops for her concerts, written children’s books inspired by Kabbalah, and reportedly donated millions to various Centre branches and initiatives. (The latest official sum, according to her publicist, Liz Rosenberg, is $5 million, but reports have run upwards of $20 million.) Though Madonna is the most famous celebrity associated with the movement, on any given night at the Centre you might also run into her husband, Guy Ritchie, Demi and Ashton, Marla, Donna Karan, Roseanne Barr, or Sandra Bernhard, the pioneer of the group, who started studying Kabbalah in 1995. Other famous people who have recently checked it out include Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, Courtney Love, Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger, Winona Ryder, Monica Lewinsky, Victoria Beckham, Sarah Ferguson, and blonde shiksa babes Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton. Train wrecks, skanks, convicted felons—all are welcome. Like any church worth its salt, the Kabbalah Centre is a hospital for sinners, not a museum of saints.
How does it work? First off, there’s not a lot of God talk. As Yehuda, a bearlike, somewhat insecure-seeming man in a yarmulke, explains, the world already has too much of the “My god is better than your god” thing. The word kabbalists use instead is “light.” Light is perfection, and light wants for nothing, but, rather, gives indefinitely. Think of a match lit in a football stadium, an analogy the teachers frequently use. Therefore, there is no “praying” to the light. The goal, instead, is to “make a connection” to the light, to become more like light itself; i.e., to give. While there are no E-meters to attach to your fingertips (as in Scientology), there is much electrical talk—of neutrons, protons, and, especially, energy. At the New York book party for The Red String Book, at DKNY in mid-December, an excitable Donna Karan explains that it was energy, in part, that drew her to Kabbalah. “I pick up on energy because I work with energy,” she says, bursting with enthusiasm, flashbulbs popping off behind her. “I’m very energetically sensitive.” She holds her hands in front of her. “Have you ever noticed how light comes off your fingertips? … Now, do you feel that?” she asks, placing one hand an inch from your chest, another an inch from your back. “That’s energy!”
speed. “This line gets us back to the seed,” Sibilia shouts, zeroing in on a line of the Zohar, the main kabbalistic interpretation of the Torah. “It takes us up to today with a corrected DNA. We’re moving forward with less robotic energy!” A routine activity is the meditation on the 72 Hebrew names of God, each of which is endowed with self-improvement properties—an innovation of Yehuda’s—such as “defusing negative energy and stress” and “dumping depression.”
The Jewish establishment is up in arms over Philip Berg’s kabbalism (or “Bergism,” as one critic prefers to call it). It has been denounced by the chief rabbis of Great Britain and South Africa, and by Jewish leaders in the United States and Canada. It’s been called “dangerous,” “cheap,” and “pagan.” Rabbi Yuval Sherlo, of an Israeli hesder yeshiva, spoke for many when he said, during the 3,000-strong Kabbalah Centre pilgrimage to Israel in September, “It’s hard for me to express in words how much I despise this festival and to what extent it has nothing to do with Kabbalah.”
Whatever the ancient kabbalists would have thought about them, the new students are gung-ho, even fanatical. They all have stories about how Kabbalah has profoundly helped them. Addicts have been rehabilitated, broken families brought back together, the egomaniacal brought back to earth.
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was ordained as a rabbi before becoming an insurance agent. Then, in 1962, he met his first wife’s uncle, an Israeli kabbalist named Yehuda Brandwein, then dean of a yeshiva in Jerusalem, which would later become the Kabbalah Learning Centre. Berg and Brandwein corresponded by mail, examining kabbalistic questions. According to the Bergs, before Brandwein died he anointed Philip his successor. (Brandwein’s family, however, has denied the appointment of Berg.)
The mission was given fresh life in the early 70s when Berg happened again upon Karen, a Brooklyn woman who’d worked as a secretary in his office in the late 50s. A restless, ambitious nomad, said to have been into motorcycles, she was intrigued that this businessman was suddenly teaching Kabbalah and wearing a big fur hat, and she made a play for him. “I said to him, ‘I got a deal for you,’” recalls Karen, who beneath her wigs and silk jabot blouses still seems like a tough cookie. “‘I’ll work for free for you, but you teach me.’” Berg cautiously agreed, aware that teaching women was forbidden. But Karen wanted more. “Why don’t we teach it to the masses?” she asked him one day over lunch at Ratner’s Deli. “Because we’re gonna get killed,” he replied. Karen wouldn’t let up. “I said, ‘So what’ll happen? What can possibly happen?’ That’s how the Centres started.”
Berg married Karen, ditching his wife and seven children. After a few years of going back and forth between Queens and Israel, where their two sons were born, the Bergs, thanks to Karen’s chutzpah, went to Hollywood. Their first L.A. Centre was in Westwood, and it could fit no more than 60 people. If Kabbalah was to become a household word, if the Bergs were to be the McDonald’s of spirituality, they had to think outside the box.
Step one, they decided, was to play down the whole “Jewish” thing. Though they secured nonprofit “church status,” which relieved them of tax burdens, they began insisting that Kabbalah was not a religion, but rather “Technology for the Soul” that everyone should have access to. It paid off. When the Bergs opened the new Centre on South Robertson Boulevard, business increased tenfold. “It’s almost like Field of Dreams,” says Yehuda, who loves dropping pop-cultural references. “You build it, they will come.”
They became unabashed networkers, Karen in particular, making bold phone calls to whatever machers they knew, in order to connect to Hollywood’s biggest, wealthiest names. Now, with Demi and Madonna reportedly hosting $75,000 Kabbalah parties at the most happening clubs worldwide, like the private Home House in London, the Centre brings along its own videographer to document every scintillating exchange between a Berg and a boldfaced name. It markets its wares with as much splash as possible—hence a billboard at Sunset and La Cienega Boulevards for The Red String Book, announcing, BUY THE BOOK EVERYONE’S WEARING. “When I saw that sign on Sunset, I was like, They sold out,” says a former student. “Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard does stuff like that.”
Madonna denies that she pushes Kabbalah on anyone. “I just have a policy,” she says. “If people ask me questions and they’re interested, then I will discuss things with them, or I’ll give them books to read, or I’ll tell them about classes, or I’ll introduce them to a teacher. Otherwise, no, because Kabbalah isn’t something that you can drag anybody to. You really have to come to it on your own.”
On the other hand, there are rumors that Madonna has had her own frustration with the Centre. Sources say that during her most recent tour a couple of Kabbalah students, at the behest of the Centre, scalped a number of donated tickets and were caught. A source says that Madonna got steamed at the Centre’s leadership and told them in no uncertain terms that they needed to get their act together—leaving them quaking in their boots. (Both Madonna and the Centre’s leadership deny that there has been any tension whatsoever.)
Starting around 1989, the Bergs came up with another winning strategy: selling miracles. They came up with Kabbalah Mountain Spring Water, for which they charge $3.80 a bottle, claiming it cleanses the soul and can cure ills. No matter that there is little precedent in either traditional Judaism or Kabbalah for this water, and that it comes from a plant in Canada; followers swilled it.
Many former students feel that the Centre is practicing spiritual blackmail. One tells how she has received the following kind of plea from the Centre: “Your child is sick and you can make them better by giving… . Give till it hurts.” Another says she was told that if she didn’t go on the grand High Holiday trip to New York—which cost about $2,000—her family would be in danger. “I have three little kids,” she says. “I’d leave them all and I would rush over to New York so I could be there.”
One member of a Florida group for former Kabbalah Centre members (the Kabbalah Support Group) claims that the Centre has destroyed people’s lives, becoming overly involved in marriages, for instance, advising Party A to divorce Party B if Party B has any doubts about the Centre. The Rav has said that six million Jews could have been saved from extinction during the Holocaust if only they had studied Kabbalah. He has also said that followers’ inner “opponent” is nothing other than a possession by Satan. To rid themselves of Satan, they must “share”—Kabbalah-speak for giving money and time to the Centre. Giving to other causes is actually discouraged, says a source. “They’re the ones who are really changing the world.”
Where does all the money go? To be sure, some is going toward the opening of new Centres throughout the world. But what about the rest? Tax records reveal that last year the New York branch had net assets of more than $24 million. The Centre has kept its financial books closed, leaving open the question of how much the family is taking out in the form of perks. As it happens, the Rav and Karen are building three houses in Beverly Hills for the family, all of which are titled to the Centre. Karen drives a Mercedes S500. She is given rings and necklaces by kabbalist jeweler-to-the-stars Neil Lane. As one source puts it, “Money is money, and they have a lifestyle that is supported by all of their students and all these businesses like the bookstore, the books, the red string, the candles—all of it. Quite honestly, it disgusts me.” (The Centre asserts, however, that anyone who doesn’t have the means to study can opt into the “scholarship fund,” and get free Zohars and free classes, which otherwise cost about $250 a course.) Another former student sees the motivation a bit differently: “These are people who want Kabbalah to take over the world.”
Meanwhile, the young volunteers, called Chevre (Hebrew for “friends”), live in apartments owned or rented by the Centre, and receive a $35 monthly stipend. Rick Ross and Steven Hassan, the country’s top cult-watchers, have each conducted interventions for such volunteers. Ross, who was hired by a prominent British family to persuade their daughter to quit, recalls, “At the end of the intervention, she decided to leave the Kabbalah Centre, return to England permanently, and she left with the clothes on her back. She had no savings, nothing.”
After all, for the true believers, no sacrifice is too great. Madonna speaks for many when she says that if Kabbalah were to spread throughout the globe it would mean an end to senseless killing. “The idea that hundreds of millions of people are conscious of the idea of cause and effect is huge,” she says. “I mean, there wouldn’t be any wars.”
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Evgenia Peretz is a Vanity Fair contributing editor who has written for the magazine on topics as diverse as the Bush administration’s war plans, extreme surfing, the 2000 presidential election, and the Jimmy Choo shoe empire.
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Hmmmmmmmmm..........
True Sacrifice
The portion of Vayikra talks almost exclusively about the different practices of animal sacrifices. It says that the existence of animal sacrifices is...
True Sacrifice?????
Wasn’t one of Morgan Freeman’s relatives killed a while back?
Does he have any K tatts? I haven't seen him around that crowd.
The question is why does Madonna have her own religion/cult? Jealous of Tommy??
Among the issues the series addresses is how crucial celebrities were to making the religion trendy. The Times reported that in 1998, the year after Madonna went public with her ties to Kabbalah, the center had $20 million in assets. By 2009, the assets had grown to $260 million.
"Everything changed once Madonna began to study," the Times quotes Kabbalah follower Roseanne Barr as saying
The witches are flying. The witches are flying!!!
Regina King Opens Up About Son Ian's Death, Gets Emotional
Regina King is finally opening up about her son Ian's suicide ... saying through tears she respects his choice to take his own life and touching on her own experience with grief.
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Regina King Still Feels ‘Guilt’ Over Her Son’s Sudden Death
“I was so angry with God,” King said in her first TV interview since her 26-year-old son died in 2022.
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Regina King opens up about her son Ian Alexander Jr.'s death
Regina King is speaking out for the first time about her son Ian Alexander Jr.'s death: 'The sadness will never go away.'
Regina King opens up about son's death for first time: 'The sadness will never go away'
"I understand that grief is love that has no place to go."By
Emlyn Travis
Published on March 14, 2024
Regina King is speaking out for the first time about her son Ian Alexander Jr.'s death.
The Oscar-winning actress, who dedicated her upcoming film Shirley to her late son, revealed that she has become “a different person” since Alexander died by suicide at the age of 26 in 2022.
"Grief is a journey, you know?” King told Robin Roberts on Thursday’s episode of Good Morning America. “I understand that grief is love that has no place to go."
She added that she continues to honor Alexander, who struggled with his mental health, by speaking “about him in the present, because he’s always with me” and remembering “the joy and happiness that he gave all of us.”
"When it comes to depression, people expect it to look a certain way, and they expect it to look heavy,” King said.
"And people expect that" — she paused as she began to cry — “to have to experience this and not be able to have the time to just sit with Ian's choice, which I respect and understand, you know — that he didn't wanna be here anymore. That's a hard thing for other people to receive because they did not live our experience, did not live Ian's journey."
King also said that as a parent it was difficult for her to witness Alexander’s struggles. "I was so angry with God. You know, why would that weight be given to Ian?" she said. “With all of the things that we had gone through with the therapy, with psychiatrists, and programs, and Ian was like, 'I'm tired of talking, Mom.'"
The actress continued, “My favorite thing about myself is being Ian's mom. And I can't say that with a smile, with tears, with all of the emotion that comes with that — I can't do that if I did not respect the journey.”
Regina King.
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Still, King acknowledged, she wrestles with her grief and acceptance. “Sometimes, you know, a lot of guilt comes over me," she said. "When a parent loses a child, you still wonder, 'What could I have done so that wouldn't have happened?'"
She added, "I know that I share this grief with everyone. But no one else is Ian's mom, you know? Only me. And so it's mine. And the sadness will never go away. It'll always be with me. And I think I saw somewhere, the sadness is a reminder of how much he means to me, you know?"
That line got to me.
I’ve had suicidal thoughts before. Ultimately, I’ve never been totally hopeless so it came down to tomorrow (or next month or next year) being a better option than eternal darkness.
But also:
So much pressure in this life of mine
I cry at times
I once contemplated suicide
And woulda tried
But when I held that nine
All I could see was my mama's eyes
I cry at times
I once contemplated suicide
And woulda tried
But when I held that nine
All I could see was my mama's eyes
I can’t fault the kid. I don’t know his struggle, problems or pain. Nobody should stay here out of obligation to anyone except their children. But everyone should think about the hurt their actions will cause.
Regina King Speaks About Her Son’s Death For The First Time: 'I'm A Different Person' | Essence
King opened up about her grief, her son's experience with depression, and the ways in which she's honoring him.
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Regina King's Son Ian Alexander Jr. Dies by Suicide: He 'Cared So Deeply'
Ian Alexander Jr. was King's only child, whom she shared with her ex-husband, record producer Ian Alexander Sr.
Jimmy Kimmel gets choked up with Regina King after her son's death
Jimmy Kimmel got choked up with guest Regina King during their first interview together since her son Ian's death: 'I know you've been through a lot.'