‘I escaped a Jewish cult that wanted me to marry my 12-year-old cousin’

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Mendy Levy escaped from the fundamentalist Hasidic cult Lev Tahor after the group allegedly tried to force him, at age 15, to marry his 12-year-old first cousin.

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When Mendy Levy was 15 years old, he had never thrown a baseball, seen a stuffed animal, watched television or held a cellphone., he was, he told The Post, raised to distrust outsiders and to believe that children’s protective services wanted to take Jewish children from their families and have them brought up as gentiles.

Levy was far from the only member who claims he was forced into or threatened with marriage at a young age.convicted Nachman Helbrans and co-leader Mayer Rosner It all began with just six members — including Levy’s grandparents, who were followers of Shlomo Helbrans — who moved from Israel to the United States around 1990. Four years later, Shlomo was convicted in the US and served two years in prison for kidnapping a 13-year-old boy. Shlomo later fled to Canada and regrouped Lev Tahor in the mountains north of Montreal, where Levy was born in 2003.

In 2014, questions from Quebec authorities over the group’s lack of secular schooling, according to Levy, led the 300 members to orchestrate a nighttime move to Ontario. In Guatemala, they occupied tents on a tree-less swath of land purchased by Lev Tahor. “It was horrible,” said Levy. “There were pregnant 14-year-olds walking around and armed security guards. I killed some snakes with rocks.”

He saw his mother one last time. “She was crying and did not know what they would do with me. But she and I did not hug. You are not allowed to hug your mother.” The man asked Levy for his location. But Levy, who now believes that the phone contained old contacts yet to be deleted, had no clue. The man promised to find somebody who could help.A few minutes later, a former Lev Tahor sympathizer called. “He wanted to pick me up but needed my address; I didn’t have it; he told me to go to the front desk. I was so scared. My heart was thumping,” Levy recalled. “I slowly opened the door to see if anyone was in the hallway.

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Acts 7:43: Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. David never had a star.

Amos 5:26: But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

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