Somebody posted on Facebook a message where a woman sexually abused by Yehuda Berg a few years ago is telling her story (see below.)
Yehuda Berg is a former Director of the corrupt Kabbalah Center and the son of Karen Berg its leader.
"Farrah Joon This thread has triggered a lot for me as most of you shamed me. I’ve composed my thoughts properly and will share. I was a close member from 2007-2013. It is a full blown cult and unfortunately I got sucked in emotionally and financially. During my years at the center I stopped trusting my inner voice and I gave my power away to the teachers and leader in charge. I know that may sound really stupid to some of you, but the process doesn’t happen overnight. Over time and little by little a cult’s objection is to break you down emotionally. This was accomplished a few different ways and is easier to do when you’re weak. I had been in a very physically and emotionally abusive relationship and a friend recommended I visit the center for a class. I liked what the teacher said. It sounded similar to The Secret, so I began studying. Over time, my teacher would honor me with the “privilege” of leadership meetings and attending all night studies which lasted until 5am. These were known as limuds and they were a perfect opportunity to begin a brainwashing process. Pretty soon I was donating all of my time and money to the center and even mentoring other students. My life was spiraling and falling apart. Things got worse and worse until I finally left and threw out every piece of Kabbalah and Zohar. I was advised to go on trips to Israel that cost nearly 7k even if it meant losing my job. I was asked to go on shopping sprees and to purchase luxury clothes and hair appointments for the teachers and leaders. I was told I needed surgery because I failed to attend Passover with the leaders. They taught us that our connection to God could only come through the leaders of the center. Around my third year as a student, my life was awful. I was a manifester before the center and couldn’t understand why I stopped manifesting and was in such a bad place financially and spiritually. My teacher told me to max out my credit cards to tithe and to not pay them. He would repeat this one sentence so much that I began repeating it to everyone I mentored and spoke with. “I am so grateful for the wisdom I’ve learned at the center. The miracles and blessings I receive are not possible without Kabbalah”. Meanwhile I had never been in a worse place. My friend finally tried to scream some sense into me. She said how can you mentor anyone when you now have nothing and are so miserable and depressed? Of course I thought she was the Satan and disconnected! But she was right. I’d hear my teachers gossiping about other students. I was becoming so confused. In 2014 I filed a lawsuit against the leader of the center for sexual abuse. He tried to drug me and abuse me when I was very sick. I had kidney stones and he told me he could heal me and that he too suffered from them. As soon as I entered the NYC apartment and got out of the elevator, he told me to take the fucking pills. I used to look at him as if he was the Dalai Lama. I was confused and in denial. He proceeded to talk shit about everyone except for three people- Einat, Rachel Ellen and Malul. He said that only Rachel Ellen was allowed to know I was there. He began texting her. Hmmm. When I refused his advances, he threatened to beat me until I was blue and kill me. He kept asking if we were going to play musical chairs all night. After that it was a very painful process. I was afraid to tell anyone. I thought maybe it was my test. I blamed myself and I needed major therapy to reprogram the indoctrination. There’s a saying that secrets make you sick and my secret was haunting me. I knew the leader was on his way to raping someone and I couldn’t live with myself by staying silent. Luckily I had a lot of support and my friends convinced me to file a lawsuit. My attorney and I became aware that this leader had sexually assaulted dozens and dozens of women. Not one of them would come foreward in my defense. When the story broke, I was ridiculed, shamed, labeled as crazy, a whore and out for money. The biggest celebrity and member in the world was aware of his behavior at least since 2007. She made her manager call me, who I had known for a while and ask me why I was harming the center and hurting the leadership family “because they are such good people” He then asked me to settle it behind closed doors. He had Eitan on his speaker phone while he was talking to me. I reassured him it wasn’t for money and I was saving someone from being hurt in the future. I continued to be ridiculed and shamed so I changed my last name. The Center hired 6 MALE attorneys and 1 female attorney and took the case to trial. YB was so arrogant during trial. He showed no remorse and he violently brushed passed me in the courtroom when he lost. Confronting him face to face was the best thing I ever did for myself. It made me fearless. Shalom testified against me and was caught in a huge lie on the witness stand. He then had the audacity to sympathize with my case to other students to appease their worries and fears. Something he was quite good at doing. I won but I was never paid the judgment. For years I was called a devil and satan for what I’d had done by many of the same chevre who I spent so much on. Preparing them for their weddings, paying for their hair appointments, taking them on luxury shopping sprees. WOW. I even saw some of those women who shamed me marching last year and I couldn’t believe the hypocrisy. Finally, since there’s been an overwhelming amount of sexual abuse exposed, over 100 Kabbalah teachers have left the center and dozens of those women have come forward publicly this past month to say they too were sexually exploited by the leader. Some of you have apologized to me and I accept the apology but I don’t forget. However, if Rose McGowan was the only person who came forward and everyone else stayed quiet, would you believe her or would you call her crazy? Are some of you so spiritually bankrupt that you need a #metoo hashtag and a movement to tell you that you should do what is ethically and morally correct? You’re still behaving as sheep and followers. I know many victims are afraid. I understand that. But I also have a conscious and couldn’t live with myself if my silence allowed someone to get hurt far worse than me. My point in writing this is to inspire women to have independent thoughts regardless of what the crowd is doing. Because at the present moment, people are still following the crowd and jumping on the next bandwagon. I was a victim for so many years and I finally took control of my life. The lawsuit empowered me. I confronted and took my power back, I spoke my truth, I took all of my pain and I turned it into massive success. I learned how to be completely independent and fearless and I stopped giving a shit what anyone in the world thought of me. That is true freedom. Always speak your truth regardless of what anyone else is doing. Your intuition leads you and speaks to you every single day and most times it’s not in accordance with the “in” crowd. Trust it. It’s not “Satan” that is tricking you. It is your soul crying and begging you to trust your inner voice. Listen to it and stop betraying yourselves."
Yehuda Berg is a former Director of the corrupt Kabbalah Center and the son of Karen Berg its leader.
"Farrah Joon This thread has triggered a lot for me as most of you shamed me. I’ve composed my thoughts properly and will share. I was a close member from 2007-2013. It is a full blown cult and unfortunately I got sucked in emotionally and financially. During my years at the center I stopped trusting my inner voice and I gave my power away to the teachers and leader in charge. I know that may sound really stupid to some of you, but the process doesn’t happen overnight. Over time and little by little a cult’s objection is to break you down emotionally. This was accomplished a few different ways and is easier to do when you’re weak. I had been in a very physically and emotionally abusive relationship and a friend recommended I visit the center for a class. I liked what the teacher said. It sounded similar to The Secret, so I began studying. Over time, my teacher would honor me with the “privilege” of leadership meetings and attending all night studies which lasted until 5am. These were known as limuds and they were a perfect opportunity to begin a brainwashing process. Pretty soon I was donating all of my time and money to the center and even mentoring other students. My life was spiraling and falling apart. Things got worse and worse until I finally left and threw out every piece of Kabbalah and Zohar. I was advised to go on trips to Israel that cost nearly 7k even if it meant losing my job. I was asked to go on shopping sprees and to purchase luxury clothes and hair appointments for the teachers and leaders. I was told I needed surgery because I failed to attend Passover with the leaders. They taught us that our connection to God could only come through the leaders of the center. Around my third year as a student, my life was awful. I was a manifester before the center and couldn’t understand why I stopped manifesting and was in such a bad place financially and spiritually. My teacher told me to max out my credit cards to tithe and to not pay them. He would repeat this one sentence so much that I began repeating it to everyone I mentored and spoke with. “I am so grateful for the wisdom I’ve learned at the center. The miracles and blessings I receive are not possible without Kabbalah”. Meanwhile I had never been in a worse place. My friend finally tried to scream some sense into me. She said how can you mentor anyone when you now have nothing and are so miserable and depressed? Of course I thought she was the Satan and disconnected! But she was right. I’d hear my teachers gossiping about other students. I was becoming so confused. In 2014 I filed a lawsuit against the leader of the center for sexual abuse. He tried to drug me and abuse me when I was very sick. I had kidney stones and he told me he could heal me and that he too suffered from them. As soon as I entered the NYC apartment and got out of the elevator, he told me to take the fucking pills. I used to look at him as if he was the Dalai Lama. I was confused and in denial. He proceeded to talk shit about everyone except for three people- Einat, Rachel Ellen and Malul. He said that only Rachel Ellen was allowed to know I was there. He began texting her. Hmmm. When I refused his advances, he threatened to beat me until I was blue and kill me. He kept asking if we were going to play musical chairs all night. After that it was a very painful process. I was afraid to tell anyone. I thought maybe it was my test. I blamed myself and I needed major therapy to reprogram the indoctrination. There’s a saying that secrets make you sick and my secret was haunting me. I knew the leader was on his way to raping someone and I couldn’t live with myself by staying silent. Luckily I had a lot of support and my friends convinced me to file a lawsuit. My attorney and I became aware that this leader had sexually assaulted dozens and dozens of women. Not one of them would come foreward in my defense. When the story broke, I was ridiculed, shamed, labeled as crazy, a whore and out for money. The biggest celebrity and member in the world was aware of his behavior at least since 2007. She made her manager call me, who I had known for a while and ask me why I was harming the center and hurting the leadership family “because they are such good people” He then asked me to settle it behind closed doors. He had Eitan on his speaker phone while he was talking to me. I reassured him it wasn’t for money and I was saving someone from being hurt in the future. I continued to be ridiculed and shamed so I changed my last name. The Center hired 6 MALE attorneys and 1 female attorney and took the case to trial. YB was so arrogant during trial. He showed no remorse and he violently brushed passed me in the courtroom when he lost. Confronting him face to face was the best thing I ever did for myself. It made me fearless. Shalom testified against me and was caught in a huge lie on the witness stand. He then had the audacity to sympathize with my case to other students to appease their worries and fears. Something he was quite good at doing. I won but I was never paid the judgment. For years I was called a devil and satan for what I’d had done by many of the same chevre who I spent so much on. Preparing them for their weddings, paying for their hair appointments, taking them on luxury shopping sprees. WOW. I even saw some of those women who shamed me marching last year and I couldn’t believe the hypocrisy. Finally, since there’s been an overwhelming amount of sexual abuse exposed, over 100 Kabbalah teachers have left the center and dozens of those women have come forward publicly this past month to say they too were sexually exploited by the leader. Some of you have apologized to me and I accept the apology but I don’t forget. However, if Rose McGowan was the only person who came forward and everyone else stayed quiet, would you believe her or would you call her crazy? Are some of you so spiritually bankrupt that you need a #metoo hashtag and a movement to tell you that you should do what is ethically and morally correct? You’re still behaving as sheep and followers. I know many victims are afraid. I understand that. But I also have a conscious and couldn’t live with myself if my silence allowed someone to get hurt far worse than me. My point in writing this is to inspire women to have independent thoughts regardless of what the crowd is doing. Because at the present moment, people are still following the crowd and jumping on the next bandwagon. I was a victim for so many years and I finally took control of my life. The lawsuit empowered me. I confronted and took my power back, I spoke my truth, I took all of my pain and I turned it into massive success. I learned how to be completely independent and fearless and I stopped giving a shit what anyone in the world thought of me. That is true freedom. Always speak your truth regardless of what anyone else is doing. Your intuition leads you and speaks to you every single day and most times it’s not in accordance with the “in” crowd. Trust it. It’s not “Satan” that is tricking you. It is your soul crying and begging you to trust your inner voice. Listen to it and stop betraying yourselves."