This guy's incredible! So much of what he talked about reflects on the people I've known sucked into other faiths cults. Cults can come from anywhere, and adherents can be dumb, smart, poor, rich, anything.
I've been following Inspiration for a Nation for several months and you have helped me deepen my appreciation of Judaism and Israel. But this episode disturbed me. I am now 69 years old, and I joined the Hare Krishnas when I was 25. I had been looking for God and no religion had answered my questions and satisfied my intellect the way the teachings of Bhagavad Gita did, nor did any worship satisfy my heart the way the congregational chanting of Hare Krishna. Over the last 45 years the scriptures and practices of Hare Krishna have helped me deepen my relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and find inner peace. Why do you call us a dangerous cult. We practice what vaisnavas have practiced for millenia in India. The teachings are that we are an eternal spirit soul, and the goal of life is to satisfy God. We eschew intoxication, illicit sex, eating of meat, fish and eggs and gambling. We chant God's name. Please do not ignorantly insult this ancient religious tradition by calling us a cult. I don't agree with all religious dogma. But to physically kidnap people to dedoctrinate someone is criminal and very disappointing for someone like Jews who appreciate devotion to God. I would love to debate this rabbi about the truth and morality of what he does.
That’s because that’s the most stressful time you’ve been in school, everything’s been taken care of but now here! All this work is behind you, and you finally can relax a bit, but the future is unknown. I know we can all remember back to this time in our life and it was fairly stressful.
When I was in public high school in 1973 in the United States, there was an Evangelical campaign called Key 73. It was a very uncomfortable time for me as a Jew. The school allowed missionaries to give each student a New Testament they could not easily refuse. Suddenly my friends were putting pressure on me to accept Jesus. At my best friend's urging, I read The Late Great Planet Earth. He thought I would convert after reading it and was amazed I did not.
Everyone today says Lev Tahor is a cult but Rabbi Hecht sadly pointed out he first heard of them 20 years ago but other Rabbis praised the Lev Tahor leader. Has Rabbi Hecht rescued anyone from Lev Tahor?
Lev tahor is one of the saddest I have witnessed. At this point they cover their head with a weird covering. They zeroed in on not eating many foods including the regular foods we eat as frum yidden. It’s pretty scary how they go from country to country running away from authorities. And they put up a recording of how they are being persecuted by the Guatemala authorities where they live. And the added information near the video is that they are asking for financial help. Here I were I’m stumped. They are chasidish and RUclips is banned. How come they have connection with unfiltered internet and putting up clips on RUclips?! I thought they were holy!! And fundraising that way? Seriously? They are collecting money from people who watch RUclips? It’s so comical. Just shows how incompetent the leaders are. And how desperate they are. I hope this cult falls apart real soon. So many victims there.
Do Hasidic drug addicts accept cocaine stam or must it be cocaine yisroel (supervised by Jews)? Is there a halachic bishul yisroel problem with marijuana brownies with kosher ingredients but made by a Gentile?
Does this explain the mass amount of extraterrestrial abductions and UFO sightings in the 70s and 80s? But how did Rabbi Hecht pull off the illusion of little grey men and space ships? I guess we need to buy the books to find out? 👽🛸👽🛸👽🛸
Hare Krishnas have been annoying me with their annoying chanting and drum circles in public spaces still, their still going hard sucking in vulnerable people. Especially as a lotta younger people are not very familiar sadly they have had some success recruiting local campusus in the last few years.
What is a cult? (Or 'sect', _sekte_ as we call them in the NL's.) 1. It has one dogmatic leader. 2. People blindly follow him without thinking too much about what his dogmatism implies. 3. The members are advised to enlist new members. 4. The cult is a sect(ion) of an original belief system. (Hence point 3. They are smaller and therefore need more members.) So how do you get people out of cults? By addressing the fact that they are indeed being brainwashed. Christians for example, need to know that their theology is not based on the Jewish Jesus but on the liar Polos. (Paul.) Who claimed he was Jewish but in word and deed was obviously not.
They are two different languages. Hebrew is considered a holy language and we try not to use it for the mundane hence Aramic a mix of Hebrew and Arabic or Yiddish a mix of Hebrew and European languages
@@vwapatriyotla2322 Yeah -- even James madison the former president knew ancient hebrew. i'm not fluent in it but i know some as well. Israel's language is modern hebrew, which isn't far from ancient hebrew, it's about as different as english in 2024 versus english in the 1700s
Kabbalah (the authentic kind) is Jewish mysticism. It was passed down from Adam, Abraham , Moses through all the generations. Kabbalah Center based in LA is a non-jewish cu1t if that is what you are asking about. They just took the name.
Rabbi Hecht's explanation that cults bring division and religions don't isn't workable. Misnogdim versus Hasidim. Satmar versus Chabad. The unity of Torah Judaism is a myth.
If someone is practicing in a divisive way - they may be practicing in a cult like manner rather than a healthy wholesome spiritual manner. One can be a healthy chosid or a culty chosid - and the same for other groups.
@@uriel7203 Perhaps past generation but very true during my own lifetime. In 1992 I spent a year in Israel. Outside the religious school where I was studying someone put up signs saying ברוך הבא מלך המשיח and the Rabbis, who were polite, said the Chabadnikim are crazy. In the secular press, they were having a heyday quoting Rav Shach and his opinion of the Rebbe and he was certainly not polite at all.
This guy's incredible! So much of what he talked about reflects on the people I've known sucked into other faiths cults. Cults can come from anywhere, and adherents can be dumb, smart, poor, rich, anything.
I've been following Inspiration for a Nation for several months and you have helped me deepen my appreciation of Judaism and Israel. But this episode disturbed me. I am now 69 years old, and I joined the Hare Krishnas when I was 25.
I had been looking for God and no religion had answered my questions and satisfied my intellect the way the teachings of Bhagavad Gita did, nor did any worship satisfy my heart the way the congregational chanting of Hare Krishna. Over the last 45 years the scriptures and practices of Hare Krishna have helped me deepen my relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and find inner peace. Why do you call us a dangerous cult. We practice what vaisnavas have practiced for millenia in India.
The teachings are that we are an eternal spirit soul, and the goal of life is to satisfy God.
We eschew intoxication, illicit sex, eating of meat, fish and eggs and gambling. We chant God's name.
Please do not ignorantly insult this ancient religious tradition by calling us a cult.
I don't agree with all religious dogma. But to physically kidnap people to dedoctrinate someone is criminal and very disappointing for someone like Jews who appreciate devotion to God.
I would love to debate this rabbi about the truth and morality of what he does.
Yes to your guest! Great Choice! I was blessed to see Rabbi JJ Hecht, obm, speak in Crown Heights. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
What a stud! You’re doing gods work! God bless you!
Thank you, Dr. Marvin Monroe.
Wow what a beautiful neshama this man possesses, thanks for all the work you do for klal Yisrael, we are very lucky to have you!
That’s because that’s the most stressful time you’ve been in school, everything’s been taken care of but now here! All this work is behind you, and you finally can relax a bit, but the future is unknown. I know we can all remember back to this time in our life and it was fairly stressful.
Pray for Israel❤
When I was in public high school in 1973 in the United States, there was an Evangelical campaign called Key 73. It was a very uncomfortable time for me as a Jew.
The school allowed missionaries to give each student a New Testament they could not easily refuse. Suddenly my friends were putting pressure on me to accept Jesus. At my best friend's urging, I read The Late Great Planet Earth. He thought I would convert after reading it and was amazed I did not.
Cults are crazy! Super interesting conversation
Everyone today says Lev Tahor is a cult but Rabbi Hecht sadly pointed out he first heard of them 20 years ago but other Rabbis praised the Lev Tahor leader. Has Rabbi Hecht rescued anyone from Lev Tahor?
Lev tahor is one of the saddest I have witnessed. At this point they cover their head with a weird covering. They zeroed in on not eating many foods including the regular foods we eat as frum yidden. It’s pretty scary how they go from country to country running away from authorities. And they put up a recording of how they are being persecuted by the Guatemala authorities where they live. And the added information near the video is that they are asking for financial help.
Here I were I’m stumped. They are chasidish and RUclips is banned. How come they have connection with unfiltered internet and putting up clips on RUclips?! I thought they were holy!! And fundraising that way? Seriously? They are collecting money from people who watch RUclips? It’s so comical. Just shows how incompetent the leaders are. And how desperate they are. I hope this cult falls apart real soon. So many victims there.
Wow! Super interesting and inspiring! I want to know the name of his daughter’s podcast about shaar habitachon!
and where are all these cults today ?
Yes to Twillory clothing/ your top.
What are the cults to worry about today?
Liberals and Democrats 😅😅
@@CECS1
Ha! Ha! Ha!
I didn't know that children converted to Christianity during the time of the Baal Shem Tov. I thought it was a modern problem.
I had no idea there were frum (religious - Orthodox Jewish) drug addicts. How widespread?
Do Hasidic drug addicts accept cocaine stam or must it be cocaine yisroel (supervised by Jews)?
Is there a halachic bishul yisroel problem with marijuana brownies with kosher ingredients but made by a Gentile?
What is the difference between a religion and a cult?
NOTHING
Religion helps a person grow and become better, a cult makes one into a servant of the leader
Does this explain the mass amount of extraterrestrial abductions and UFO sightings in the 70s and 80s? But how did Rabbi Hecht pull off the illusion of little grey men and space ships? I guess we need to buy the books to find out? 👽🛸👽🛸👽🛸
Thanks so much!
I would consider success as the person remaining free of cults and an inculcation of jewish pride.
Can you please put the telephone number to get the books directly?
What happened to the Moonies (Unification Church) and to the Hare Krishnas? I don't hear about them anymore.
They're still around.
Hare Krishnas have been annoying me with their annoying chanting and drum circles in public spaces still, their still going hard sucking in vulnerable people. Especially as a lotta younger people are not very familiar sadly they have had some success recruiting local campusus in the last few years.
SHKOYACH
Was not the Sabbath on a Saturday did Constantine change it to Sunday?
What does Rabbi Hecht think about the cult leaders within Breslov? While Breslov is legitimate, why does it have cultish spin-offs?
Kidnapping kids with a yamaka on.. classic
what do you say on LEV TAHOR ??
What is a cult? (Or 'sect', _sekte_ as we call them in the NL's.) 1. It has one dogmatic leader. 2. People blindly follow him without thinking too much about what his dogmatism implies. 3. The members are advised to enlist new members. 4. The cult is a sect(ion) of an original belief system. (Hence point 3. They are smaller and therefore need more members.)
So how do you get people out of cults? By addressing the fact that they are indeed being brainwashed. Christians for example, need to know that their theology is not based on the Jewish Jesus but on the liar Polos. (Paul.) Who claimed he was Jewish but in word and deed was obviously not.
isn't that Harry Kushner, not Hare Krishna
Pray for Israel
Yo what does it mean when someone is rocking a red kip? Is he the top dog? Alpha Ashk? Or na?
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What's difference between Yiddish in ancient Hebrew
They are two different languages. Hebrew is considered a holy language and we try not to use it for the mundane hence Aramic a mix of Hebrew and Arabic or Yiddish a mix of Hebrew and European languages
@@cohenlabe1Does anyone today know ancient Hebrew and can speak it fluently?
I heard Yiddish is a corrupted German with a sprinkling of Hebrew but not 1000% sure
The Bible is written in ancient Hebrew.
So yes plenty of people know Hebrew.
@@vwapatriyotla2322 Yeah -- even James madison the former president knew ancient hebrew. i'm not fluent in it but i know some as well.
Israel's language is modern hebrew, which isn't far from ancient hebrew, it's about as different as english in 2024 versus english in the 1700s
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What connection is Kabbalah with the Jews?
Jewish mysticism cult within Judaism, which emerged in the 12th-century CE in Provence and Catalonia.
What?…😂
Kabbalah (the authentic kind) is Jewish mysticism. It was passed down from Adam, Abraham , Moses through all the generations. Kabbalah Center based in LA is a non-jewish cu1t if that is what you are asking about. They just took the name.
@@Didleeios88how about the other Kabbalah centers around the US?
@@Rachel-wv4cg I don't know about them so I don't want to say anything but if they are associated with the LA brand I would be careful.
Cults are crazy
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Rabbi Hecht's explanation that cults bring division and religions don't isn't workable. Misnogdim versus Hasidim. Satmar versus Chabad. The unity of Torah Judaism is a myth.
If someone is practicing in a divisive way - they may be practicing in a cult like manner rather than a healthy wholesome spiritual manner. One can be a healthy chosid or a culty chosid - and the same for other groups.
Most of what you are saying is so past generation. Baggage thst nobody wants anymore.
@@uriel7203
Perhaps past generation but very true during my own lifetime.
In 1992 I spent a year in Israel.
Outside the religious school where I was studying someone put up signs saying ברוך הבא מלך המשיח and the Rabbis, who were polite, said the Chabadnikim are crazy. In the secular press, they were having a heyday quoting Rav Shach and his opinion of the Rebbe and he was certainly not polite at all.
@@uriel7203
URIEL
מימיני מיכאל ומשמאלי גבריאל ומלפני אוריאל ומאחורי רפאל ועל ראשי שכינת אל:
Parshas Re'eh on Gal Einai website.