Esther can go, why can't I?

Madonna is coming to the Holy Land. The pop diva, a student of Jewish mysticism, was headed to Israel on a spiritual quest for the Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown Wednesday.
Her five-day visit, which includes trips to graves of rabbinical sages, brought a diversion to a country normally focused on the conflict with the Palestinians. Israelis reacted with a mix of excitement, bewilderment and anger.
The itinerary includes stops at the Western Wall in Jerusalem; the northern city of Safed, a center of Kabbalah; and Rachel's Tomb, the traditional burial place of the biblical matriarch in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
It also includes discussions on the first-centry sage Akiva and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Zohar, the core text of Kabbalah.

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Other religious leaders have been harsher. Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri [editor's note: Shlit"a], a leading Kabbalist and revered rabbinical sage, said in a recent newspaper interview that non-Jews — and women in general — are banned from studying Jewish mysticism.
"It is forbidden to teach a non-Jew Kabbalah," he said.

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(since no one reads the comments i wager:)
The title was not exactly supposed to be funny