Rabbi's Criticize New Madonna Song

[DudeAsInCool]

Some Rabbis Criticize New Madonna Song

A song on Madonna's upcoming album dedicated to a Kabbalist rabbi is drawing criticism from other rabbis, the Israeli Maariv daily reported Sunday.

The album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," is to be released on Nov. 15 and features a track entitled "Isaac" about Yitzhak Luria, a 16th century Jewish mystic and Kabbalah scholar.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/09/D8D4SM8O0.html

[Potato]

You'd think she'd have known this part:

Jewish law forbids the use of the name of the holy rabbi for profit.

[Wolfie]

Nothing really new for Madonna. She pissed off the Christians with the "Like a Prayer" video back when she was still Catholic. Burning crosses and a black Jesus. Talk about scarillage! :rolleyes:

[DudeAsInCool]

They are probably performing bloody bris's over this

[Ken]

Making money off of her religion.

What a beautiful example of blatant, greed-driven exploitation.

I'll be surprised though if this piece of shit album sells very well.

We all know Madonna can't sing (anymore?).

The digital doctoring is so bad, that it's impossible not to notice what's going on.

[Wolfie]

Making money off of her religion

Why not? The Vactican has been doing it for centuries. :bigsmile:

[Potato]

oh but the Vatican is HOLIER THAN THOU, so they can do whatever they want.

Madonna isn't quite holier than thou, but I heard she's getting her own ipod! Link unavailable at the moment, sorry.

[KiwiCoromandel]

it certainly is a long reach from a club dancefloor to a 16th century jewish scholar....hey..but that`s showbiz..... :)

[method77]

both Ken and Wolfie have a point there so -borrowed from another thread- FUCK YOU BOTH!

[asley]

Maybe it's some kind of publicity stunt... you know Madonna.

[KiwiCoromandel]

Madonna sacrilege row........

Word that Madonna's upcoming album includes a paean to a 16th-century Jewish mystic has prompted the rabbis who guard his legacy to accuse the pop idol of sacrilege and hint at divine punishment.

The Confessions on a Dance Floor collection includes a song titled Isaac - in reference, entertainment media say, to Rabbi Isaac Luria, founder of the Kabbalah school of mysticism which counts Madonna, 47, as one of its devotees.

The custodians of Luria's tomb and seminary in the northern Israeli town of Safed accused her of breaking a taboo.

"There is a prohibition in Jewish law against using the holy name of our master, the Sage Isaac, for profit," the seminary's director, Rabbi Rafael Cohen, told the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv.

"This is an inappropriate act, and one can feel only pity at the punishment that she [Madonna] will receive from Heaven. The Sage Isaac is holy and pure, and immodest people cannot sing about him," he said.

Catholic-born Madonna, famed for her racy lyrics and on-stage antics, has drawn frequent censure from ultra-Orthodox Jews who say her embrace of Kabbalah debases their religion.

source:Reuters

[Wolfie]

I wonder what's next after she gets kicked out her current religion. Buddism, Islam...?