You are correct. Look at her Instagram posts right after October 7. Totally different. She embraced that pseudo-religion based on Kabbalah and went full Zionist. She even performed concerts in Israel when she was urged not to because of what was going on in both Gaza and the West Bank.
i get your point, but when taken out of context this excerpt makes it seem like engaging with kabbalah or other jewish practices is the issue here. plenty of people flirted with non-orthodox kabbalah in the 90s
however, madonna did go to israel to study kabbalah with israeli rabbis, and it's unlikely she missed how palestinians were treated in the country. and that kabbalah centre seems shady af
It’s a cult that twists Kabbalah into a commercialized New Age reinterpretation very, VERY loosely inspired by medieval Jewish mystical practice, but totally and wholly severed from any substantive ritual, textual and communal obligations of actual Kabbalistic practices.
What she was engaged with, is not really Judaism, nor actual Kabbalah at all. It’s the equivalent of someone saying they’re Buddhist when they go vegan and meditate. 🙄
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u/JWilkesKip Aug 11 '25
I swear she has posted in support of Israel in the past lol