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It seems Ashton Kutcher is going through some changes in his domestic living arrangements as he and his gorgeous actress fiancee Mila Kunis get ready to have their first child together.
First, we learned few days ago from the LA Times that Ashton Kutcher would like to sell his current Hollywood Hills bachelor pad for about US$12 million. He first rented the place in 2012 after he split from his ex Demi Moore then eventually bought it for US$8.5 million.
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Constructed only in 2007, the nearly 10, 000 square foot ultra modern home has splendid views in all directions.
With five bedrooms, eight bathrooms the home also has its own gym, sauna, wine cellar, elevator and a cosy fireplace in the living room for those cool winter evenings in California.
A swimming pool and spa are of course de rigeur as well, within the half acre footprint of the property. No brokers are yet involved the LA Times reports as Kutcher is said to be shopping it quietly privately so far.
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Next the UK paper the Daily Mail is reporting this morning the couple have now purchased a beautiful, over 7, 000 square foot, family home in a gated Beverly Hill community, for just a little over US$10.2 million. The paper’s source for the report is LA Celebrity site TMZ, and the photographs the paper shows (which we do not reproduce here) may even have come from a paparazzi fly over of the property, such is the interest in the couple on the part of the local media. Parts of this Daily Mail report should perhaps still be treated with some caution until additionally confirmed therefore perhaps.
While Ashton Kutcher’s personal family background is Catholic, he became attracted to Judaism it seems while married to Demi Moore. At the time both became interested in the philosophies of the International Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles, which was led by the late Rabbi Philip Berg.
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Rabbi Berg, who was a regularly trained orthodox Rabbi, and who died last September, nevertheless believed that there was no good reason why the essence of the teachings of Kabbalah, a form of Jewish Mysticism, should not be provided to a much broader audience.
Traditional rabbinic teaching, in contrast, has generally preferred to confine study of Kabbalah to a, much more restricted, audience of those with claims of greater esoteric wisdom and who are, in their view, then more capable of understanding the interpretations of the Zohar, one of its principal spiritual guides. Traditional elite thinking in other words, to which Rabbi Berg was quite sensibly opposed.
Even though now divorced from Demi Moore, Kutcher has retained his links to Judaism, and indeed to Israel as well where he has continued to forge spiritual links. He is now also developing venture capital links in Israel as well as an investor.
By building a family now together with Mila Kunis, his connections become stronger still, one might conclude therefore.
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