| random thought...there's this mini-film about the so called Kabbalah movement on comcast, talking about how it's suddenly become the chic thing to do among trendy Hollywood types...
it's so offensive to me, them reducing something as complex and mystical as Kabbalah into a mass marketed ego accessory...it's disrespectful to the Jewish faith, and dare i say, rational people everywhere. for centuries, only the most religious men were allowed to study it, and then only after they had turned 40. now, im a modernist and open to interpretation, like the inclusion of women. however, you need to have enough religious study and life experience to comprehend the complexities of Kabbalah.
most people who are impressed by california-fied "kabbalah" don't even know anything about hebrew or judaism. you don't have to be religious, or even jewish to be accepted...in fact, the founders give out this paper of hebrew words and they tell their customers, most of which can't read or understand hebrew, just to look at the paper because that alone will help them out spiritually. like just look at a bunch of black squiggly lines on a piece of paper. what a load of crock...
for example, britney spears claims to be a student of Kabbalah, so much so that she tattooed a hebrew name for God on her neck. let me repeat that. TATTOOED. Now, for anyone who the tiniest bit of knowledge about Judaism, he or she knows that tattooing is forbidden. you can't even be buried in a Jewish cemetery if you have one. tough shit. so basically the britney tattooing incident is pretty much a metaphor for this whole thing. also, these founders i speak of, they've begun marketing kabbalah t-shirts, cd sets, even shot glasses, and they're raking in the big bucks. i smell a rat.
ugh the whole thing sickens me. |
