B"H
I've decried the fact that Tzfat is the pseudo-Kabbalah center of the world since I came to live here and saw what is really flying. I too was roped into moving to Tzfat thinking that real Torah is learned here. I was shocked and sickened when I saw the truth as a new resident of the town. A small group of people have made fortunes in Tzfat selling pseudo-Kabbalah here to the gullible many and the egomanical few. They are the ones who set the tone for what the Kabbalah is understood to be world-wide. It's a huge industry.
Madonna comes to Tzfat regularly to learn pseudo-Kabbalah and gets highly publicized guest of honor treatment in a town in which 30% of the people are unemployed and people can be found picking garbage. That money that she waves in the face of the people of Tzfat, many of whom are poor because they are dedicated to finding the way back to the true Torah of the God of Israel, has been made making moral filth seem attractive and "hip" to young people.
Yep. If you can read Hebrew, see:
http://www.gnews.co.il/news/index.phtml?c=6
What she's learned here didn't prevent her from publicity stunt tongue kissing two other women on stage, both of whom are half her age. Neither have the "holy" Rabbis or fat cats in Tzfat called her down for doing so or made her feel that her image in inappropriate in this city.
Enough said.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan (gagging)
And the Peace Goes On with God's Blessings
