Quicker than a ray of...49.95 light..
It's Tuesday...and I've just finished two Kabbalah books over the three day weekend. Ugh, lets just say that I love some of the ideas of the Kabbalah Centre. Then, I forget...over time, it's IDIOSYNCRACIES. (sp?)...
Anyway, I was reading about The Zohar and it's powers. They've got this passage in one of their books that goes something like..."The reason that Sephardic Jews were spared from the Holocaust that took most of European Jewry is due to their possesion of The Zohar." It goes on to say that in fact, European Jewry rejected the Zohar and paid the ultimate price. Umm, is it just me, or is this EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE?!?! To even suggest that so many people were killed for their rejection of an not-really-so ancient text is mind-boggling and does a complete disservice to the memory of those people. It makes me sick thinking about it. And I've been wrestling with this the whole weekend. There are other stories in their little slick books. About how because of the Zohar, people missed flights that were going to crash, that people who worked at the World Trade Centre stayed home on 9-11, etc, etc. It's just really making me sick...it reminds me of someone selling insurance. And, somehow even though the people who perished in the Shoah aren't my ancestors...I just can't let them go. Can't let them fade into memory. And now that I've had them on my mind...I'm just profoundly sad. So many people...so many lives. I can't think straight, and I even was arguing aloud and crying on my way into work this morning. NO NO NO!!! It's like I can't WAIT, till I get an email from the Kabbalah Center...I CAN'T WAIT to tell them how sick this is. And yet, to better honor their memories, wouldn't it be better to not have anything to do with them? I think so...
Anyway, I was reading about The Zohar and it's powers. They've got this passage in one of their books that goes something like..."The reason that Sephardic Jews were spared from the Holocaust that took most of European Jewry is due to their possesion of The Zohar." It goes on to say that in fact, European Jewry rejected the Zohar and paid the ultimate price. Umm, is it just me, or is this EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE?!?! To even suggest that so many people were killed for their rejection of an not-really-so ancient text is mind-boggling and does a complete disservice to the memory of those people. It makes me sick thinking about it. And I've been wrestling with this the whole weekend. There are other stories in their little slick books. About how because of the Zohar, people missed flights that were going to crash, that people who worked at the World Trade Centre stayed home on 9-11, etc, etc. It's just really making me sick...it reminds me of someone selling insurance. And, somehow even though the people who perished in the Shoah aren't my ancestors...I just can't let them go. Can't let them fade into memory. And now that I've had them on my mind...I'm just profoundly sad. So many people...so many lives. I can't think straight, and I even was arguing aloud and crying on my way into work this morning. NO NO NO!!! It's like I can't WAIT, till I get an email from the Kabbalah Center...I CAN'T WAIT to tell them how sick this is. And yet, to better honor their memories, wouldn't it be better to not have anything to do with them? I think so...