I heard on the radio this morning that the Rabbi (I'm sad to say I came into the room a couple seconds too late to get his name) who introduced Madonna, and through her, Britney Spears and many others to the wonders of Kaballah, recently made a wonderfully profound and enlightening statement.
It seems that the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust died because they were not practitioners of Kaballah.
Yes, that's right; they died not because their persecutors wanted them, as a race, to be exterminated, but rather because "their light was blocked". How very sad, this tragic blocking of the light.
By several accounts I've read, and from what I've been told by a Jewish friend, this guy practices a very shallow, superficial and incomplete version of Kaballah (which is no doubt why it appeals to the shallow, superficial and incomplete people in the entertainment industry), which focuses heavily on charms and clean living rather than deep spirituality and the sacrifice and total commitment it's supposed to require.
While I admit that I haven't had the time or the inclination to research this branch of faith, it seems to me that if this guy's going to make foot-in-the-mouth statements like that one, Madonna would do well to go back to the Catholic faith she was raised in, or to find a real Rabbi rather than the fraud she's got.