Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, rabbi of the city of Safed, referred today (Tuesday), in an interview he gave to Esti Perez on Net 2, to the death of the late writer and educator Chaim Velder, who was found lifeless yesterday afternoon next to his son’s grave, in the Sgula Cemetery in Petah Tikva .
At the beginning of the letter left by the late Velder, who vehemently denied all suspicions against him, he wrote: “I went to invite Yehuda Silman and Shmuel Eliyahu to a Torah trial in heaven.”
Rabbi Eliyahu, who coordinated the testimony against Velder, about the alleged harm to minors, responded: “He will not reach heaven at all, such people do not reach heaven. “The suicide was expected, in an attempt to silence the victims he threatened to commit suicide.”
He further added: “The severity of what he did is like murder. We need to look at the victims even now. Not on him. I saw the terrible scar he left on those children. “
“It’s obviously unpleasant for someone to commit suicide, and it hurts and we are human beings. But at that moment I said – at that moment dozens of other girls survived an attack. The world is getting purer, it sounds a little inhuman to think like that, whoever saw with their own eyes the girls and men who were hurt, can not help but think of them. I know them and I have seen them and I have seen the terrible scar he made on them in the soul. It is impossible not to take revenge on them. “
Rabbi Eliyahu said of Velder: “This person is an artist, a genius, knows how to touch people and excite people and that is how he would invest and weave the connections – very helpful, supportive. In the end, people would fall on its cobwebs. “
The rabbi revealed: “I talked to him. I told him explicitly – there is an answer in the world, you can apologize. “He was more addicted to it than anyone who was addicted to drugs and denied it.”
The late Haim Velder was found lifeless, after it was reported the day before that the police had opened an investigation against him. It was also reported that a court headed by Rabbi Eliyahu received 22 complaints from women and girls in which he allegedly harmed. The whole affair began with an investigation by journalist Aharon Rabinovich in time.
In a letter left by the writer who was revered by an entire generation of children and teenagers, he continued to deny what was attributed to him, did not apologize and claimed complete innocence: “I have come to the conclusion that in the world of lies I have no chance to prove my innocence. I deal with horrible lies, covered in anonymity, with no possibility of proving the fact that they have no dawn. I have reached the edge of human endurance. They hurt me with the things I was best at and gave my mind to – support and protection of children.
“I thank all those who believed in me. Bless you. And to all those who do not: even if you gave up on me – please do not give up spray. Every line, word and letter in them, was written out of a sincere desire to better, benefit, enhance, strengthen, assist, bestow, build and correct a world. “I have never written without a desire to bring good to the world and its inhabitants,” Velder wrote.