Burka Cult Leader: I Never Beat My Children; My Prayers Protect Beit Shemesh From Arab Terror

Ma'ariv has long interview with Burka cult leader, Rabbanit Bruria Keren, and Ynet has a shorter interview. Keren answered each question in writing because she is "forbidden" by her "religion" to speak with men.

Just how loopy is this woman who is now on house arrest?

Very, as these highlights prove:

Ynet
"There's a proverb – 'He who spares the rod hates his son'," she said when confronted with the allegations she used to chain her children to a chair and hit them. "It tells of how Solomon's mother tied him up and bit him until the Messiah emerged. The kids read it and decided to act is out. It was a game." …

According to reports, she used to communicate with her children by passing them notes.

"After I realized I was wasting my time with them, that they just won't listen to me I decided it was better to spend my time praying," she explains – on paper.…

Is there anything she would like to tell her children? "My sweet children, I love you very much," she wrote on a piece of paper, "and I'm not angry at any of you. I love God more than anyone."

Rafi G
…The most interesting part of the whole thing is her claim that since she moved to Bet Shemesh there have been no terror attacks, and it is not because of the police protection, but because of her prayers. She has been protecting Bet Shemesh.

Regardless of the fact that even before she moved to BS there were no terror attacks, she knows that she has been providing our protection ever since she moved to BS. Keren claims that 5 years ago she went to America to marry off a daughter. While she was there, there was "almost a terrorist attack (an explosion of a device) in Bet Shemesh". She heard about it so she came back right away. Since she returned there has never again been any terror incident or any problem with Arabs. She says, "Instead of letting me pray quietly, you disturb me. I forgive you, but the one protecting us is me, not you, even if you think I am crazy."

Now why would anyone think that?

Thank God her children were removed from home before this nut case was released on house arrest.

A Mother In Israel hopes to have a complete translation of the Ma'ariv interview posted later today.

Ma'ariv article.
Ynet article.

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[Hat Tip: Rafi G.]

Comments

[mother in israel]

She's so modest, yes she's convinced that her prayers are the only reason Beit Shemesh is protected.

[R]

How humble. It seems she is now a god too.
She sounds like a right nutter. She never spoke to her children? Then wonders why they never listen to her...well maybe because they didn't hear anything from her top listen to in the first place. I wonder how she communicated with the kids that can't read.
Anyway the proverb is "he who spares the rod spoils the child" and most people know it doesn't actually mean a real rod and just means to discipline.

[SJ]

"Burka Cult Leader: I Never Beat My Children; My Prayers Protect Beit Shemesh From Arab Terror"

this is the same kind of idiotic bull shit that the orthodox spew all over the place.

To them, soldiers with guns don't protect a country, students of a thousands of years old document that lists events that is recorded nowhere else in another contemporary source protects a country!

[alternative child care]

You didn't get yet to the good parts. The child she tied to a chair and beat frequently had some kind of physical or mental retardation, this was how she "healed" him.

[Garnel Ironheart]

In the ER we call people like this Haloperidol-deficient and work to correct their nutritional lack of the substance as quickly as possible.

[Yochanan Lavie]

BS does not stand for Beit Shemesh. It stands for bullshit.

[Nigritude Ultramarine]

I love God more than anyone.

The protagonist of the book, "All for the Boss" used to say this to his kids all of the time.

[SJ]

In ER, what do they call guys who think that a high five with a girl is a sin against God? XD

[Garnel Ironheart]

I dunno, but we call single-issue guys like you obsessive-compulsive. That means you're clomipramine-deficient. See your physician.

[mother in israel]

I posted two parts of it, and I've had enough.

[SJ]

Making an issue out of shomer negiah is apart of the greater issue that halacha has a real tendency to issue bans on normal everyday actions that are not hurting anyone in any sense of the word.

and I am not single issue.

[Garnel Ironheart]

Yes you are. It's always about that frum girl you wanted who didn't want you and how you couldn't touch her and how that seems to justify why things didn't work out.

If you like touching women so much, give this Beruriah a call. Clearly she's a hands-on kind of woman.

[Bartley Kulp]

Her prayers protect Beit Shemesh.

It reminds me of an episode of American Dad. The father who works for the CIA and is ultra paranoid locks up an Iranian couple who just moved into their neighborhood(the couple being an assimulated Americanized type). When his wife freaked out on him he pointed to the fact that there has not been any terrorist attacks in their neighborhood since he locked them up.

[SJ]

wow Garnel, that last post you made practically qualifies as slander. Is that what they taught you in rabbi school?

[uncle joe mccarthy]

it is said that a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing...and apparently this woman had very little knowledge

she is not crazy, she is evil

[uncle joe mccarthy]

just curious, what happened to her husband?

[Isa]

Regarding:
just curious, what happened to her husband?

He got ground up and turned into dog food.

[alternative child care]

I think she needs to get together with Elior Chen and produce a series of parenting books and videos.