A Rabbi who knew Michael Jackson writes in the Jerusalem Post

I wasn't going to post anything about Michael Jackson's death, but this article (posted on Drudge), and written by a Rabbi who knew him fairly well, is poignant. Funny that I would have two posts in one day featuring a Rabbi. A ninety year old Rabbi reflects on the benefits of being old

The end of the King of Pop | Op-Ed Contributors | Jerusalem Post

In the two years that I had attempted, ultimately unsuccessfully, to help Michael repair his life, what most frightened me was not that he would be arrested again for child molestation, although he later was. Rather it was that he would die. As I told CNN on April 22, 2004, "My great fear, and why I felt I had to be distanced from Michael ... was that he would not live long. My fear was that Michael's life would be cut short. When you have no ingredients of a healthy life, when you are totally detached from that which is normal, and when you are a super-celebrity you, God forbid, end up like Janis Joplin like Elvis... Michael is headed in that direction."

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Because Michael substituted attention for love he got fans who loved what he did but he never had true compatriots who loved him for who he was. Perhaps this is why, when so many of his inner circle saw him destroying his life with prescription medication - something he used to treat phantom physical illnesses which were really afflictions of the soul - they allowed him to deteriorate and disintegrate rather than throwing the poison in the garbage.

Tragic.

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