Leadership behind bars, Lev Tahor cult now seeking to move to Morocco, opponents say

Beleaguered ultra-Orthodox cult Lev Tahor is seeking to move to Morocco, and recently received the blessing of a prominent Moroccan-Israeli rabbi with an international celebrity following, as the extremist group seeks footing after fleeing other countries and having its leadership imprisoned, an activist opposed to the group said.

Uriel Goldman, one of Lev Tahor’s leaders, met recently with Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto in Morocco to win his favor to support the move, according to Lev Tahor Survivors, an organization supporting defectors who fled the group.

A representative of the Morocco’s small Jewish community said he had no knowledge of the cult and said Pinto was not connected to the wider community.

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Has The Lev Tahor Cult Disbanded?

After years of wandering the world and many of its leaders being sent to prison, the Lev Tahor cult has essentially disbanded, three cult members told Kikar H’Shabbat.

According to the report, cult members are scatted in a number of countries around the world in recent months. A small number of members are still in Guatemala and are trying desperately to rehabilitate the cult.

Some cult members returned to Israel and have been seen on the streets of Jerusalem in recent days.

This past Friday, some cult members were also spotted in London buying food for Shabbos.

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Mikveh, clothes and shoes; the abandoned compound of the 'Lev Tahor' sect in Guatemala (photo essay)

For many months, the Guatemalan compound of the Lev Tahor cult has been lying abandoned. Ever since members of the sect containing several hundred people, including men, women and children, fled the country, the compound has been left empty, with nary a soul in sight.

Over the last few months, as the sect has been migrating across Europe in an attempt to find a country that will allow them to settle, only three members of Lev Tahor have stayed behind in their Guatemalan compound. In a small home at the end of the complex is a room in which the three members sit.

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