When Shaul Youdkevitch and his wife left the Kabbalah Centre in February, after nearly three decades living and working at the now-celebrity-rich religious center, they didn’t want to give up the esoteric teachings of Jewish mysticism too. So they started their own kabbalah community, and because Youdkevitch had been a higher-up at the Kabbalah Centre, his organization quickly got the attention of his former employer.
Now he’s being sued for allegedly stealing trade secrets and leading people astray.
Details of the lawsuit, which I wrote about for this week’s Jewish Journal, are after the jump:
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