Madonna to teach Kabbalah to orphans in Africa

Madonna to teach Kabbalah to orphans in Africa

Madonna recently launched a new project called Raising Malawi, which aims to set up an orphan care center to provide food, education and shelter for up to 4,000 children. It will have projects based on Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, which has gained popularity in recent years and counts the 48-year-old singer among its devotees.

Kabbalah is virtually unheard of in Malawi, a predominantly Roman Catholic country where superstitions and belief in witchcraft run high.

Malawi is among the poorest countries in the world, trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of hunger and disease. Just over 14 percent of the 12 million population are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and an estimated 1 million children have been orphaned.

Madonna and Ritchie have a son, Rocco, 5, and she also has a daughter, Lourdes, 9.

Madonna joins a growing list of entertainer-activists who have focused on aiding Africa.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, whose daughter was born in Namibia earlier this year, recently announced they would donate $1 million each to two humanitarian organizations active on the continent. They also have two adopted children _ one from Ethiopia and one from Cambodia

Posted by rabbiyonah on August 4th, 2006

Beyond absurd. Beyond dumb.  Teaching her fake kabbalah of materialism and me-centered spirituality to Malawi children. Its like spiritual colonialism only stranger because she is passing on a soft cult (kabob center) and personality cult.NEW YORK (August 3, 2006) — Madonna is always reinventing herself. In her latest role, she is a humanitarian with an ambitious plan to care for orphans in the African country of Malawi…..,

“One of the main precepts of Kabbalah is that we’re put on this Earth to help people,” she says. “And your job is to figure out how you can help, and what it is that you can do.”

An orphan care center, being built with a goal of feeding and educating about 1,000 children a day, will have programs based on Spirituality for Kids, Kabbalah’s children’s program, according to the magazine.