Rabbi Dr. Laibl Wolf's Practical Kabbalah

The following is Pessy Krausz' article from The Jerusalem Report of 9/12/19 about her experience in Dr. Laibl Wolf's practical Kabbalah workshops during a cruise to Norway:

(It is easier to read if you zoom in.)

The word "Kabbalah" in the title was a turnoff, but I was curious to find out why, as the picture caption says, Rav Wolf believes there is no such thing as anger, so I read the article anyway. I enjoyed the article. It turns out that Rav Wolf's "practical Kabbalah" is the same meditation techniques that appear in several other religions, dressed up in Jewish language, just like modern Hassidut (unless you are a member of one of the Rebbe cults) is pop psychology dressed up in Jewish language, so it doesn't matter that he calls it "Kabbalah".

It turned out that the picture caption was misleading. There is such a thing as anger. It needs to be controlled, like Aristotle once said:

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Or as Pessy Krausz wrote:

Thus "To rage or not to rage" becomes a choice. Inner harmony provides the crucial balancing pivot that enables us to be pro- rather than re-active. We can choose our responses to the many difficult challenges facing us in our daily life.

Including whether it is appropriate to rage.


So I enjoyed the article. Until the last paragraph. Rav Wolf is a shill for Chabad. As I have blogged before, like here and here, Haredism generally, and Hassidism in particular, is polytheistic. Every Haredi worships at least two gods: the Real One plus one or more Rabbis. Menachem Mendel Schneerson is to Chabad as Jesus is to Christianity: a deified false Messiah.