{"id":1394,"date":"2005-10-09T10:24:53","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T10:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/kabballah-maddona.html"},"modified":"2005-10-09T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-09T10:24:53","slug":"kabballah-maddona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/kabballah-maddona.html","title":{"rendered":"Kabballah Maddona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some rabbis have had it:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Word that Madonna’s upcoming album includes a paean to a 16th-century Jewish mystic has prompted the rabbis who guard his legacy to accuse the pop idol of sacrilege and hint at divine punishment. <\/p>\n

The "Confessions on a Dance Floor" collection includes a song titled "Isaac" – in reference, entertainment media say, to Rabbi Isaac Luria, founder of the Kabbalah school of mysticism which counts Madonna, 47, as one of its devotees.<\/p>\n

The custodians of Luria’s tomb and seminary in the northern Israeli town of Tzefat (Safed) accused her of breaking a taboo. <\/p>\n

Prohibition<\/span><\/p>\n

"There is a prohibition in Jewish law against using the holy name of our master, the Sage Isaac, for profit," the seminary’s director, Rabbi Rafael Cohen, told an Israeli newspaper on Sunday. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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