Samuel James - Testimony of a Chabad Survivor
January 27, 2025
(Two Chabadniks on the left are doing the crossed arms sign while the third is struggling to make a triad claw sign)
Nearly one in five US Jews participate in Chabad, a racist Jewish supremacist cult that includes Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in their number.
Samuel James was a Chabad member for ten years.
Here he describes the satanic cult from the inside.
by Samuel K James
(henrymakow.com)
If testimonies by people brainwashed by toxic cults can be denied, my testimony is documented with references to the cult's texts and books. A bibliography is available in my book, A Thunderous Elephant. In this way, no denial on their part is possible. What I say, I prove.
I was 18 when it all started. As in previous years, I went to the synagogue to pray on the day of the Jewish New Year. On the way home, a man dressed in black with a beard and a black hat approached me. I immediately recognised that he belonged to Chabad, a Jewish Orthodox movement. We hit it off and exchanged a few friendly words. A few days later, he came to my house and convinced my mother to let me go to New York for ten days or so to the headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch "community". I was to be taken care of, and all she had to do was pay for my plane ticket. At his and my insistence, she agreed. How could I refuse to leave my grey and dull Parisian suburb for the city of all possibilities, of all dreams, New York City?
When I got there, I saw a black tide, a mass of men dressed the same way as their master. He had died ten years earlier, but they all spoke of him and acted as if he were alive, present and omniscient, a kind of god. They quickly taught me that the God of Abraham was far away and unreachable, and the only way to reach him, to talk to him, to ask him for something, was through the funnel, the intermediary, the rabbi of Lubavitch, his name: Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
All the master's habits - his clothes, his tastes, his customs, his tastes, his writings - were practised with care, studied and spread not only in Lubavitch synagogues, which are implanted in over 100 countries worldwide (including the 50 states in the US) but much more widely, on a global scale, in every synagogue in the world, thanks to the rabbi's emissaries.
In the vast majority of synagogues that are modern and respectful of humankind, there is a Chabad man whose aim is to spread the guru's toxic and dangerous teachings.
I looked around me; they had pictures of him absolutely everywhere: on the walls of their houses, in their restaurants, their cars, their prayer books, their pockets, their wallets, etc... the only place I didn't see any was in the bathroom and toilets. They were happily obsessed with him.
I returned home with a black Kippa on my head, inscribed with their mantra on it, their favourite phrase, their leitmotiv: "Long live our master, our teacher, our rabbi, the king messiah, forever and ever." For several years in Paris, I continued to study with them and learn their teachings, their beliefs and their goals:
1) Jewish people emanate from a divine essence, "from the thought of God". They are infinitely superior to non-Jews, it's almost difficult, incorrect or odd to compare them. To take a simple example, if God were a fruit, let's say an orange, the Jews would be the seeds because the seeds are at the core of the orange and concentrate all the potentialities, they can grow, in turn, an orange. On the other hand, non-Jews would be the peelings who can only reproduce what it is.
Non-Jews are inherently egotistical, and any good they do is merely the result of the benefit they hope to derive from it later, except for a few righteous ones.
2) The annihilation of the self is one of their fundamental pillars. The self, the person's will, desires, expectations, dreams and wishes, must recede as those of the master advance. This is one of the first requirements that all should agree to, from the people in the movement to those like me, who weren't dressed like them but who had a long experience of the movement and had accepted their beliefs, their practices and the master's will, thus refusing to make my own choices and denying my free will. I was on the verge of wearing the hat, so to speak, for many years.
3) Divination and cartomancy. The Chabad guru had thousands of epistolary correspondences with Jews from all over the world, who consulted him during his lifetime. These letters were compiled in books and called the "Holy Letters" or "Igueroth Kodesh" in Hebrew, and although they usually serve to reaffirm the master's teachings, a divinatory practice was introduced by this sect into Jewish communities and beyond: to consult the master's spirit, one must think of their question, think of him and open a page of this book at random. The answer to your question or a hint of it must be on one of the pages. The practice has spread like wildfire in Jewish circles, to the point where now, an App and websites are available online, where people can click a button to "ask for a blessing" or "receive an answer", which means drawing a letter at random.
I don't think this Chabad idol and his sect, who brainwashed so many people and, as of today, are still not held accountable for anything, deserved to be awarded The Gold Medal of The American Congress.
I can't sum up in a few lines the psychological hold I was under from 18 to 28, the impact on my life, and how I got out of it. I suggest you read my book, A Thunderous Elephant and dig into the references I provide. There's a lot more than you can imagine.
For several years now, I have been harassed by governmental organisations, including the DGSI (in Paris) and Mossad. I recently renounced my Israeli citizenship to push them away. Despite this, the harassment continues wherever I go. I'm currently in Sri Lanka and hope one day to find a country where I can live in peace.
RH said (January 27, 2025):
As a Christian, there are certain Christian denominations that I do not understand nor agree with in their practices. The tele-evangelists turn my stomach with their “over the top” preaching and “make me rich” message. In fact, I think they do a lot of harm and is one reason young people turn away from the neighborhood churches thinking that is the end game of Christianity.
Here is my question: In the Jewish community, are the Chabad just accepted or are they considered “over the top”? Sounds like they have a strong foothold in the Jewish mindset from this article.
I have difficulty attempting to relate to someone who ascribes to the following:
“Non-Jews are inherently egotistical, and any good they do is merely the result of the benefit they hope to derive from it later, except for a few righteous ones.” Woh! I am in a box before I know I even know it. “One down” as some may say from the get go. That means I will leave them to themselves; forgive, but set boundaries for my protection.
Is the Chabad looked at as the elite of the Jewish faith by their fellow Jews, or as the author states, something to escape?