Rabbis Blast Song on New Madonna Album

[PsychoDad]

Rabbis Blast Song on New Madonna Album

Dateline: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
http://www.phenomenamagazine.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Into+The+Fringe&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=80&obj_id=4085

A song on Madonna's upcoming album dedicated to a Kabbalist rabbi is drawing criticism from other rabbis, the Israeli Maariv daily reported Sunday.

The album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," is to be released on Nov. 15 and features a track entitled "Isaac" about Yitzhak Luria, a 16th century Jewish mystic and Kabbalah scholar.
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Rabbi Rafael Cohen, head of a seminary named after Luria, suggested Madonna's actions could lead to divine retribution.

"Jewish law forbids the use of the name of the holy rabbi for profit. Her act is just simply unacceptable and I can only sympathize for her because of the punishment that she is going to receive from the heavens," Cohen told the newspaper.

[henslee]

1. Rabbis and Madonna deserve each other.

[elehhhhna]

2. LOVE THE HEADLINE! Did they blast it on a boombox? LOL

[anarch]

7. haha...that's what I thought too

"Hey Rabbi! You wanna turn that crap down!" :D

[rocktivity]

3. You're down to your last persona, Madonna

Now that you've done ripped off Chris Reeve by falling off that horse, you've nothing left but cannibalism!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Inland]

4. Umm..does this particular sin come up often?

My guess is that it is hard to actually connect profit to prophets.

Maybe there's more money in a lyric about a 16th c. jewish mystic than a lyric about sex and/or dancing, but I doubt it.

[PsychoDad]

5. LOL

Maybe there's a "time out" bench in hell for such things? :shrug:

If madonna hasn't sexed up the lyrics to this song, which i'm sure we would have heard had she done so, then perhaps this song comes from the right place in her heart.

Perhaps she will even donate part of her prophet profit as a form of thanksgiving to the teachings of this man she admires.

Peace

[DanCa]

6. Wait to the fundies here Madonna's new christmas song *Joke*.

It's called I saw mommie kissing Misses Claus