Careful now. People cult hop. They get out of one cult and go to another that frees them from the first. Also people who warn you away from one cult send you to another.
Example. Aaron Rakefett warns you against the yeshiva world's attitude of 'my way or the highway,' but weaves fantasies of Zionism and the wondrous life in Medinas Israel. Likewise, Dovid Berger warns you against Chabad (his claims are mostly false in my opinion) but also pushes you in Zionism.
The yeshiva world attacks Chassidus and Chabad but delivers a cult that is far worse than anything you find in either of them.
Chabad warns you against the misnagdim but delivers its own lunacy. (Talking about cultural Chabad not the philosophy.)
The entire frum world warns you about the world's cults but delivers its own.
In the end, you have to protect yourself. You don't do that by being naive, by buying bridges, by trusting people. Don't trust people without their earning your trust. Don't trust them because somebody else trusts them. Are you trusting the 'gadol' or trust your neighbor? You never met the gadol. You never read anything he wrote. What are you trusting? Hype?
Think for yourself. Judaism is not a cult, but the Jewish world has many cults.
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