Oh don’t get me wrong, it is definitely kind of culty.
But in a positive way. There’s no proverbial kool-aid.
It’s certainly unconventional, but they are good at helping people.
Almost everyone they hire has come through the program here at some point, so there’s almost an “inmate running the asylum” thing going on.
It’s also sort of amusing at times. Rabbi Mark, the founding Rabbi, used to walk around with a baseball bat. I thought the person who told me that was joking, but no.
They also have the ability to sanction relationships between clients or put them on non communication. So that’s kind of culty too.