Knitted news02.01.23 17:09 Tue in Tevet Tishpag
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The rabbi of the city of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu – the one who blew up the Rabbi of the North case, in which sexual offenses committed by Ezra Sheinberg against the women of his community were revealed – reveals the moments when the case began to unfold for him.
Rabbi Eliyahu initially referred to Shainberg’s release from prison after 7.5 years in an interview with Kan Reshet B: “He has not begun to pay his debt. Halacha says that such a person is equivalent to a mass murderer. He murdered many, many women, many more than the eight women who dared to testify against him in court. So what is 7.5 years compared to what he did? You saw how he came out smugly with his chest puffed out, as if everything was fine. He didn’t even ask for forgiveness. Evil evil.”
Rabbi Eliyahu recalls the moments when the affair began to explode: “The first woman arrived with courage, and within hours of that day, it already became clear that this was not a one-time event or a stumble, but a path.”
Rabbi Eliyahu said: “He realized that we were on his tail and he came himself. I told him: You committed a mass attack. He confessed but remained guilty. Even after he confessed, he continued to lie and try to convince women that all his disgrace would not be revealed. At first I did not think it was criminal, but a religious human being, later we found out that it was criminal. And from there the road was paved to imprisonment.”
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