THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

Moving one step behind this scene, we discover is that "Simcha Press", the Jewish-sounding
publisher of Ribler's book whose official specialty is "Jewish spirituality", is actually a brandnew
(June 2000) subsidiary of "Health Communications, Inc." Taking one more step
backstage, we identify HCI as a "a full-service medical education and communications
company... publishers of _The International Journal of Drugs, Devices and Diagnostic
Research_". This seems strange after Simcha describes them as "publishing books in the
realm of personal growth", a NA code signal. We probe further. Upon entering the HCI online
bookstore, among the links we notice a tiny word: "Spiritual". Clicking there, we see the
books offered by HCI include titles like _The Tao of the Ride_ and _Wings of Soul:
Releasing Your Spiritual Identity_; featured are personalities like the Luciferian Barbara
Marx Hubbard, billed as one of "the most brilliant thinkers" of today, and Hindu author
Kauthilya, "the Aristotle and Machiavelli of India". Sampling one HCI book, _Golden Eggs:
Spiritual Wisdom for Birthing Our Lives_, we find ourselves coming full circle, with the
authors urging us to follow Carl Jung, Barbara Marx Hubbard and other teachers of "personal
and global transformation"; by the end of Chapter One, the book has become nothing more
than a hymn of praise to the gnostic goddess Sophia. Our possible conclusions: (a) The
author of _New Age Judaism_, its publisher, the mother company and its market have all
failed to notice that Ribler's orientation and book diametrically oppose the other "wisdom
books" being promoted here. (b) Ribler, a well-meaning but naive Jewish writer is being used
to lend legitimacy to HCI's new Jewish division. She is also being used by Metivta, Elat
Chayyim and Jewish Renewal in general, while she herself is totally unaware that she is
spiritually out of step with all her colleagues. (c) Ribler, Simcha Press, HCI and I are all
assuming this book to be totally in harmony with NA idolatry. The only people fooled by the
"Jewish" title, the "Jewish" publisher and the "orthodox" endorsements are the unsuspecting
Jewish browsers at the Jerusalem International Book Fair where Simcha Press has a table.]
4d. The Kabbalah Centre and Rabbi Philip ("Shraga") Berg: As the most controversial
promotor of Jewish Kabbalistic teaching, yet possibly the most successful, the Kabbalah
Centre (KC) deserves a detailed report. The Centre has been strongly denounced as a
dangerous cult by the Task Force on Cults and Missionaries (See "The Truth about the
Kabbalah Centre" published by the LA branch). The orthodox community of Toronto, where
KC headquarters are located, declared a harem on Berg (divorced him from community
involvement). Unethical conduct and fraud, manipulation and violent intimidation, cultlike
exploitation, hard-sell tactics and profit margins of up to 500% are included in the charges
from different branches of the Task Force on Cults and Missionaries, Jews for Judaism and
other community cult-fighters. According to the Los Angeles Task Force on Cults, some of
his quotes from the Talmud and the Zohar are also fictitious. So is his "Yeshivah Kol Yehuda
in the U.S." which he claims to head (reportedly an attempt to pose as a branch of a respected
Jerusalem yeshivah by the same name). The KC was banned in South Africa by the Chief
Rabbi and Rabbinical Association; but Canadian Rabbi Emanuel Schochet, who was
instrumental in bringing this about, found himself being sued by the KC in Canada for libel as
a result. Other rabbinical councils (possibly intimidated by R. Schochet's ordeal) have
contented themselves with simply posting public warnings about Berg. Leading Kabbalists in
Israel such as Rabbi Ovadia Yosef have reportedly joined in denouncing his conduct and
teachings.
As a sort of response to all the above, the KC official website [featuring high-class graphics
but poorly edited text], lists as one of the FAQs the question of why there is so much rabbinic
opposition to them. Their answer is revealing: Every pioneer bringing "positive and profound
change" to human "civilization" has met with resistance; "the establishment" simply doesn't
appreciate them. [This hints that their mission is not to affirm Jewish tradition but to