Superstition is not Religion: Thoughts for Shabbat May 8, 2010
"And you shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God."
I recently read a heart-breaking news story.
The Brooklyn District Attorney's office is investigating accusations that a popular kabbalistic rabbi in Israel has defrauded American Jews in the amount of many thousands of dollars. This rabbi is also accused of having bilked many Israelis. The charges relate to his promising to use kabbala, blessings and amulets to cure the terminally ill or to make barren women fertile.