There was a program about this on the BBC last night, which I came across about half way through. When I first heard about Kaballah (through stories about Madonna and the Beckhams) I passed it off as another pseudo-ancient cult/religion looking for peoples money. I wasn't wrong, but this program exposed a much darker side to it.
Through secret filming, they'd showed how a man with cancer was told that drinking special Kaballah water and scanning the Zohar would cure him of his cancer:
Essentially, they charged him £860 for water and some books he can't read.
That didn't really surprise me, but the next part did. In further secret filming, a Kaballah leader revealed the view Kaballah takes on death and disease. Supposedly, Kaballah teaches that people who die or get a disease - diabetes and cancer given as examples - do so because they 'block the Light' and don't accept Kaballah. He said "A six year old boy can be riding on his bike and get hit by a car and die. I didn't understand how that was his own fault, but now I understand". He followed up this with a comment about Kaballah's position on the holocaust, saying that the European Jews killed by the Nazi's died because they refused to accept the Zohar given to them by Jews of the East. He also pointed out that the reason Hitler couldn't take Russia - a country suppsedly full of Light-accepting Jews - was also down to Kaballah ("They say because of the weather...well, what controls the weather? The Light").
I really can't believe that this can gain so much mainstream credibility when it has such radical views.
Through secret filming, they'd showed how a man with cancer was told that drinking special Kaballah water and scanning the Zohar would cure him of his cancer:
Essentially, they charged him £860 for water and some books he can't read.
That didn't really surprise me, but the next part did. In further secret filming, a Kaballah leader revealed the view Kaballah takes on death and disease. Supposedly, Kaballah teaches that people who die or get a disease - diabetes and cancer given as examples - do so because they 'block the Light' and don't accept Kaballah. He said "A six year old boy can be riding on his bike and get hit by a car and die. I didn't understand how that was his own fault, but now I understand". He followed up this with a comment about Kaballah's position on the holocaust, saying that the European Jews killed by the Nazi's died because they refused to accept the Zohar given to them by Jews of the East. He also pointed out that the reason Hitler couldn't take Russia - a country suppsedly full of Light-accepting Jews - was also down to Kaballah ("They say because of the weather...well, what controls the weather? The Light").
I really can't believe that this can gain so much mainstream credibility when it has such radical views.
