Madonna: now correspondent
She wrote an article for an Israeli newspaper about his spiritual awakening and the Cabala
JERUSALEM, Israel .- After a long career as a singer, dancer, actress, director and writer of children’s books, Madonna has added a new title to his resume: a correspondent for an Israeli newspaper.
The main Israeli daily, Yediot Ahronot, published an article signed yesterday in which she describes her spiritual awakening to discover the Jewish mysticism, or Cabala, where “all the pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place.”
Madonna in Israel presented Sticky & Sweet tour in September, which no doubt explains the time of his journalistic debut here. But the artist also has ties to Israel and Judaism through the Kabbalah Center of Los Angeles-based, whose version of the new era of ancient Jewish mystical tradition has become popular among members of the elite of Hollywood.
The iconic pop star of 50 years has taken the Hebrew name Esther and made private pilgrimages to Israel in 2004 and 2007 along with other devotees of Kabbalah.
In the article, Madonna, who grew up in the bosom of a Catholic family, said he had heard for the first time on a full dinner in Los Angeles, being pregnant with her daughter Lourdes, now 12 years. Had finished filming the movie musical Evita, he writes, but “still felt that something was missing in my life.”
He attended his first class with a teacher named Eitan, after years of practicing yoga and reading about Buddhism, Taoism and the beginnings of Christianity.
“I heard what he had to say and then I knew that my life would never be the same,” she writes in the article, the newspaper published in Hebrew in its original version, and apparently unedited, in English. “The life no longer seemed a series of random events, “writes Madonna. “We also began to see that being rich and famous I would not provide a lasting achievement, and that was not the end of the road.”
The Kabbalah Center has been devoted to other celebrities including Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears. Many Jewish scholars are teaching self-center, sale of merchandise related to the hog plum and welcome non-Jewish pop stars as a perversion of the ancient mystical tradition of Judaism.
Some Rabbis were particularly incensed by Madonna’s song Isaac, on the revered sixteenth century Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria, who included in his 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor.
Jewish tradition for years has established that the Kabbalah is so complicated and so easily misinterpreted that students should only begin to address it once and have solid knowledge of Jewish laws and only after 40 years of age. The elements of the discipline include the study of mystical texts, prayers and meditation in an attempt to get closer to the divine.
The criticisms do not seem to have any effect on Madonna’s popularity among Israelis. The singer, who originally planned to offer a single concert in Tel Aviv, he added another date whose tickets were sold out quickly.
The last concert of Madonna in Israel was in 1993 during the Girlie Show tour.
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