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| shalóm, javérim! celebro la proximidad espiritual que me permite ayudarles, y el honor que me hacéis al permitirme cultivar junto a vosotros el celo por la Verdad. sólo para agregar algo de respaldo contextual a lo dicho días atrás acerca de la red de Michael Laitman, les copio aquí debajo un testimonio enviado por "Jason" al foro "Noachide" en yahoogroups (en inglés). mis brajót, daniEl Michael Laitman's False KabbalahPosted by: "Jason"Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:18 pm (PST)In the past I have posted an article written by Michael Laitman and I believed that he was doing a good work in his promotion of what initially appeared to be authentic Kabbalah. I was apparently wrong however. At first I believed Laitman's group "Bnei Baruch" to be fraudulent but I relented to accepting it as legitimate whenever I found A-Z Torah Institute a supposed web site that is the official representative of Rav Brandwein's teachings. On this website the Laitman group is continuously linked to and referred to. I warily accepted the possibility that this group was legitimate although many signs showed otherwise. Recently any favorable outlook I have had towards this group has come crashing down. Michael Laitman came to St. Louis last weekend and publicly denounced the Torah. This was not a private proclamation but there are 150 witnesses. I wrote this group that is apparently associated with Rav Brandweins legacy and I stated the following: I came across your web site awhile back as I was looking for authentic info. concerning Rav Brandwein and the teachings of Baal HaSulam. I noticed that you have links to Michael Laitman's group Bnei Baruch. I assumed that this group was authentic to the teachings of Kabbalah but after researching them for over a year now I have concluded otherwise. The Laitman organization is anti-Torah and refute any notion of its physical observance. At first I came across this repeatedly on their web site but I brushed it off. Then a local group in St. Louis which is headed by a Michael Kellog (the official representative of BB) told a colleague of mine and myself that "the Torah is rubbish." We were able to settle this matter once and for all when last weekend Michael Laitman appeared here in St. Louis for his first USA convention. We asked him staright out what his position is concerning the observance of Torah and he told us matter-of-factly that the Torah is not to be observed because that is a cultural thing of the Jews and that the Torah does not relate to physicality only spirituality therefore any physical observance of commandments is useless and a waste of time. He also stated that Moses did not give laws of physical observance but the ignorance of the Jews created such things. Now I have my information from the source. This is opposite of what Rav Brandwein taught particularly within the Yeshiva he created. Bnei Baruch teaches that the Torah is purely allegorical with no physical application. However the Torah exists of 4 levels referred to as PaRDeS. The physical observance of the Torah as elucidated by the authentic Kabbalah effects a degree of transcendence above the nefesh behemis level of ones self. This is fundamental to authentic Kabbalah. You also have a link to the Chabad on your web site, which is a Chassidic sect based on the philosophy of the relationship of physical mitzvot with Kabbalistic philosophy. It therefore seems odd that on your website you have linked the Chabad and Bnei Baruch. Therefore I thought that perhaps you are unaware of Laitman's teachings concerning Torah observance. There is enough Kabbalistic mania and pop-culture invasion of the sacred and it is giving authentic kabbalah an inauthentic veneer. If you are legitimate followers of Rav Brandwein then please don't besmudge his reputation by associating him or his teachings with Bnei Baruch. Todah |
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