tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585815319811704052.post4237230981164489998..comments2022-04-13T07:18:15.095+02:00Comments on Practical Kabbalah and Self Creation: On the Death of Rabbi Elazar AbuchatzeiraJacobus G. Swarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17813816143506526042noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585815319811704052.post-66925607833751346022011-08-03T04:12:51.220+02:002011-08-03T04:12:51.220+02:00Nowhere in my missive is their any "justifica...Nowhere in my missive is their any "justification of the murderer," and your suggestion that I have done so is quite absurd!<br /><br />The plain facts of the matter are:<br /><br />1. The Rabbi lived in luxury, had a run-in with the tax authorities over the millions he earned from his spiritual activities. Eventually "Under the settlement, Rabbi Abuhatzera is paying NIS 15 million in taxes on payments received for blessings and talismans." - [full communique "Globes, Israel business news" - March 16, 2005]<br /><br />2. "I decided to bury him,” said Menachem Ellowich.....A few weeks ago, a man armed with a knife tried to do just that.....<br /><br />Ellowich is trolling the Internet to find others hurt by Abuhatzeira..... Meanwhile, his pile of papers is growing: printouts from charitable associations, taped conversations with the rabbi's representatives in the United States and with other victims.....<br /><br />Ellowich began a private war against Abuhatzeira, exploring and documenting the rabbi's modus operandi..... Ellowich said he has dozens of testimonies from people who say that within a few minutes, they were writing a check. He began taking a small tape recorder to his meetings with Abuhatzeira's agents. He also demanded his money back, to no avail.<br /><br />He approached a Jewish newspaper, a local Jewish politician and finally, the police, who opened a case against Abuhatzeira.<br /><br />This year, for the first time, Abuhatzeira did not come on his annual December visit to Brooklyn.<br /><br />Ellowich's story recalls the pattern of behavior by Abuhatzeira that Haaretz detailed in a series of articles in 1997: He tries to impress people, persuades them to write a check in exchange for a blessing, obtains more money and threatens a curse if necessary.<br /><br />Another man said his father paid Abuhatzeira for a blessing, but the rabbi threatened that if he married the woman he loved, he would have defective children. 'That man and his gangsters have to be stopped,' the man said.<br /><br />Meir G., from New Jersey, said he heard the rabbi could perform miracles. "When I met him for the first time, he described passionately how my life would change for the better. I was filled with joy and optimism. In summing up, the rabbi said these things would only come true if I paid him $100,000. At that point, it was impossible to refuse. That same day, I started sending him the money. At some point I couldn’t go on, and Mr. Harman [Abuhatzeira's aide] threatened that if I stopped, "your son will die." I am a religious man and I took the threats very seriously. Since I met him, my life has been a disaster.'<br /><br />M.V., 38, from Brooklyn, never filed a police complaint. But he did supply an affidavit stating that he had given more than $500,000 to Abuhatzeira in exchange for the promise of a baby that was never born. M.V., who has since gone into bankruptcy, said his wife and father will not let him complain because they are afraid of a curse. 'But I don’t believe in the curse,' he said. 'If his blessings were a fraud, so are the curses'." -[complete article "Vos iz Neias: The Voice of the Orthodox Jewish Community" - 26/2/2010; related articles in Ha'areta (Ha'aretz.com) - 26/2/2010]<br /><br />Further complaints regarding the Rabbi's actions and details on the charges being filed with the Brooklyn DA are available online.<br /><br />So, you wish to tell me that the many online articles on this matter; the ultra religious, "very frum" folk who complained in the first instance; and the Israeli taxman who investigated the undeclared millions, were all LYING?<br /><br />Surely lies of that nature are libellous, and so are filling false charges, and reprisals to such actions are obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense will tell you in the USA. So nu?Jacobus G. Swarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17813816143506526042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585815319811704052.post-3967005447416145872011-08-03T02:41:06.459+02:002011-08-03T02:41:06.459+02:00Its not right to justify the murder of a man based...Its not right to justify the murder of a man based on rumors I have been to rabbi elazar e few times I know for a fact that he always has a person with him in the room to witness what he said and the people said some of the people make up stories he always tried to keep his side of the bargain by constantly praying and learning Torah and being a role model to others not all his blessings materialized it doe not take away his superhuman efforts to help everyone it's going to be impossible to replace him<br />Nobody was under any duress to go to him it's was all by choice to justify the murderer is inconceivablechaya zaetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03811840083970273994noreply@blogger.com