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Thread ID: 15061 | Posts: 12 | Started: 2004-09-20
2004-09-20 14:12 | User Profile
*This is so ridiculous, that I almost don't know where to begin. I open the floor to comments and ridicule.
*[url="http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/19/madonna.israel.visit.ap/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/19/madonna.israel.visit.ap/index.html[/url]
Madonna makes pilgrimage to sage's grave
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Pop diva Madonna made a midnight pilgrimage to a Jerusalem cemetery early Sunday, holding a mystical candlelit ceremony at the grave of a Jewish sage. The singer is in Israel on a five-day spiritual quest along with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism.
Following her graveside visit, Madonna went to the Western Wall, a part of Judaism's holiest site where the biblical temples once stood.
The arrival of Israel's biggest celebrity visitor in years has created a frenzy among her fans and the media.
Others have been critical of the star's interest in the esoteric Jewish mysticism.
Madonna was raised a Roman Catholic, but she has become an avid devotee of Jewish mysticism in recent years. She has adopted the Hebrew name Esther, wears a red thread on her wrist to ward off the evil eye and reportedly refuses to perform on the Jewish Sabbath.
No screaming fans were waiting for Madonna Sunday as she arrived with her husband, Guy Ritchie, at the Kiryat Shaul cemetery, flanked by black clad police escorts, assault rifles slung over their shoulders.
The blue and red revolving lights of the patrol cars cast an eery glow over the terraced, hillside graveyard as the couple walked past the tombstones to the grave of the Kabbalist sage Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag.
Polish born Ashlag is the renowned author of the Sulam, the ladder, a commentary on the core Kabbalistic text, the Zohar. He died in 1954.
Madonna, wearing jeans, a black and gray checkered sweater with a matching cap and a large diamond encrusted letter E on a chain to symbolize her new name, spent more than an hour inside the stone mausoleum, placing candles on the tomb, praying and chanting.
Led by a rabbi, Madonna and her small entourage recited blessings over food and wine, drank from small plastic cups and circled the raised stone grave. Toward the end of the ceremony, a visibly moved Madonna wiped tears from her eyes.
Adherents of Jewish mysticism believe that praying at the graves of sages can help achieve one's wishes.
Millions make pilgrimages every year to the more than 100 of these burial sites across the Holy Land, praying for health, children or to find a mate.
Madonna was to have traveled to northern Israel where most of these holy sites are situated, but sources in the police, who were to have provided security, said she had canceled that part of her trip.
The singer has been surrounded by heavy security during her trip and two of her guards were arrested Friday after they brawled with photographers trailing the star.
As Madonna prayed inside, her guards held up black cloths and flashed lights outside in an attempt to block photographers and cameramen from the proceedings.
After leaving the cemetery, Madonna traveled to the Western Wall but remained inside her vehicle and did not go down to the sacred site.
At the site she received a mixed welcome from young worshippers with some chanting, "She has no right to be here."
Some have opposed Madonna's visit and involvement in Kabbalah, charging that the raunchy, materialistic values the singer has promoted in the past were contrary to religious values.
But others welcomed the diva and said she deprived herself of a spiritual experience by remaining in her vehicle
"Why did she not come out of the car, we were waiting for her," said Hadass Chen, who came to see the singer. "You don't feel the vibe if you don't touch the wall."
2004-09-20 17:46 | User Profile
A poster on LF speculated she's pulling this kabbalah schtick to ingratiate herself with Jewish entertainment executives now that her youth is fading.
I tend to agree.
2004-09-20 19:37 | User Profile
Gawd, I detest this skank. She always looks unwashed and diseased to me, but maybe that's just because I know where she's been. If she insisted on having a Negro boyfriend, why couldn't it have been O.J. Simpson, instead of Dennis Rodman? :biggrin:
2004-09-20 19:56 | User Profile
Even if I don't like that much I must say this about her, shes good at bringing attention to herself,,,,,,like the Jews.
Could that be the reason as to why she "converted",,,,,,hummmmmmmmm!!!!!
2004-09-20 21:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Recluse]Gawd, I detest this skank. She always looks unwashed and diseased to me, but maybe that's just because I know where she's been. If she insisted on having a Negro boyfriend, why couldn't it have been O.J. Simpson, instead of Dennis Rodman? :biggrin:[/QUOTE]
I believe you're thinking of Carmen Electra, not Madonna. I don't recall Madonna ever getting together with that freak, Dennis Rodman. But Carmen Electra certainly has.
2004-09-20 22:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE=kminta]I believe you're thinking of Carmen Electra, not Madonna. I don't recall Madonna ever getting together with that freak, Dennis Rodman. But Carmen Electra certainly has.[/QUOTE]
Maddona did get together with Rodman for he wrote a whole chapter in his autobiography. The reviewer said that that chapter made his eyes singe. I did not read the book nor would waste my time but only read about it in the review section of the newspaper. I don't want to imagine what those two would do together.
2004-09-21 04:32 | User Profile
skemper,
As I recall she was doing every NBA player she could find at one time. Do not forget Charles Barkley, she been with him too. Dennis Rodman and Charles Barkley! Yuck, how many kinds of VD has she gotten?
2004-09-21 19:46 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]skemper,
As I recall she was doing every NBA player she could find at one time. Do not forget Charles Barkley, she been with him too. Dennis Rodman and Charles Barkley! Yuck, how many kinds of VD has she gotten?[/QUOTE]
Yes, she had a thing for non-whites. She liked Latins also. But notice that she married only whites. I wonder why any white man would want to date her, much less marry her. Well, as for Warren Beatty, he probaly has as much VD as she does. I remember the cover of Rodman's autobiography, "Bad as I Wanna Be", because it was so disgusting. He was sitting on his motorcycle, naked, except for his tattoos, with only a basketball covering his privates, with lots of basketballs surounding the motorcycle.
2004-09-21 20:22 | User Profile
Many years ago Madonna published a photographic book called "Sex". Much "controversy" in the jewish press, ya know the drill to make sure it sells zillions of copies. I was at some house party once and there was the book. One photo has Madonna making out with negress Naomi Campbell while they're both being held together by a big nigra, who I thought might be Dennis Rodman but I can't remember now, and it doesn't matter.
Oh yea, all three were [B]buck naked[/B] too.
And if Madonna's a jew now, it's quite befitting. Let her stay in Yisroel.
2004-09-22 03:29 | User Profile
What a nauseating spectacle the repulsive, gap-toofed guinea whore makes of herself as she prances & struts around the world: following every fashionable trend in clothing, sexuality & religion; laughably pathetic in her attempts to stay young and "cutting edge" as the mounting wrinkles make her visage ever more hag-like......
Deserately needs to be put out of her misery by a qualified veterinarian.
2004-09-22 03:41 | User Profile
Yes Forrest, she makes a good Jew,,,,,,,,
2004-09-22 04:24 | User Profile
xmetalhead,
Yes. [QUOTE]Let her stay in Yisroel. [/QUOTE]
Yes I remember the fuss over that photographic book called "Sex". Now she write children's books using Kabbalistic mystical stuff.
skemper,
[QUOTE]But notice that she married only whites.[/QUOTE] She also moves to an almost all white place in the UK.