Yoel and Mendy Levy, brothers who escaped from the Lev Tahor cult years ago, have tried to visit their widowed mother several times in recent months after eight long years of separation but have been cruelly driven away each time amid threats to their lives.
The brothers have sent many letters to their mother over the years but the cult members refused to give them to her. A month ago, Mendy finally obtained permission from the cult leaders to see their mother. He booked two tickets to Guatemala but when the brothers reached the compound, they were blocked by cult members who claimed that their mother didn’t want to see them and threatened to harm them if they didn’t leave the compound.
“We burst into bitter tears,” Mendy said. “Because we know the truth. Our mother loves us and how could it be she said she didn’t want to see us?”
They returned to the States but had a breakthrough in the weeks afterward when one of the cult members, Uriel Yosef, personally assured them that they could meet their mother. They again traveled to Guatemala. But when they arrived there, Uriel Yosef wasn’t “available” and they were again denied entry. One of the cult leaders, an El-Salvadorian who joined the cult, even approached them holding a shechita knife and threatened to harm them if they didn’t leave the area.
The brother tried again several days ago but this time they came with their a bodyguard. But to no avail – they were again expelled from the area amid threats to their lives.
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(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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19 Responses
AMI Magazine still has to answer about why they defended them.
Ami Magazine just does IPCHA MISTABRA AS ALWAYS
People who get involved in family issues, always do it l’shaim shamayim. It would be helpful if YWN would stop covering this story as it doesn’t bring good to either side and/or the community.
They should contact the local police and tell them that there mother is being held against her will.
It is BECAUSE people like Ami Magazine that this cult still exists. They used their power for evil.
I stopped reading Ami since that… if they support evil, I won’t support them.
Why are you blocking my comments? It’s important to stop evil.
Quote “Cruelly Driven Away”. Was this mistranslated from Yiddish? should say cruelly chased away?
Most cults don’t last more then a year
This is over a decades and it sickens the heart and probably them also but in this case gut would tell you that they would not walk out alive from there it is just a very sad thing but we can maybe learn from this that it is not maybe what Torah you learn but how you learn it
Lev Tahor allows smart phones?
Its amazing how big role YWN plays in chilul shem shumayim beferhasya.
And
לעיני כל העמים
lev tahor ppl have smart phones??
Mind me… what has ami magazine got to do with Lev Tohar?
When did they switch their livush? Why did they? Does that have anything to do with yidishkiet?
What’s with those brown scarves?? If someone were to wear a different color they get expelled?
If there are people still funding this evil cult they are going to give din v’chesbon for the evil they are supporting. There are people there who are being held against their will. This cult is more crazy and more violent than ever. And who “converted” these”converts”? They don’t have real rabbis, their bes din is a sham.
Smart Phones??? Some much the “Tahor” claims.
it’s a cult, and it’s doing what all cults do, isolating its victims and using threats of violence. they should be trying to rescue their mother, not just visit her, if she wants to be rescued.
They are not jews. its a spanish cult!
It is still sad to see people suffering like they do. They should be dismantled and then looked at for their jewish status. more likely, the majority are not jewish