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Rabbi Amnon Bezeq, one of the rabbis of Har Etzion, refers to the meeting between Rabbi Zvi Tao and Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, and says that from a public point of view, Rabbi Tao’s silence must not be accepted.
In a post he posted on his Facebook page, Rabbi Bezeq wrote: “The joint photo of Rabbi Tao and Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu shlita, caused me deep sorrow. Not about what is in it, but about what is not in it, and what is not accompanying it, even when a day has passed since the meeting. “
Rabbi Bezeq explained: “Two important rabbis, public leaders, met: one with experience in sexual assault, who together with two other ultra-Orthodox judges investigated and investigated the Chaim Velder affair, met victims, heard testimonies and received evidence, and his conclusions were consistent with what “Those who know things in the ultra-Orthodox world know well, with what was published in a serious journalistic investigation and with what the ultra-Orthodox society is also internalizing more and more.”
“And the other, who did not investigate the affair in depth, who did not meet with the victims or with the witnesses and those close to the affair, and based on a conspiracy theory whose logic was shaky in the first place, determined and without providing evidence, that the whole affair was a lie and was not created, In the process, he accused Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu of McCarthyism and the loss of boundaries. “
“And here, after the meeting, in which Rabbi Tao heard, or at least could hear, all the evidence in the affair – there is no voice and no attention. This affair cannot end in thunderous silence.”
Rabbi Bezeq goes on to write: “The public responsibility on the part of a rabbi at such a floor rate does not allow him to make such serious allegations in the air and act explicitly so that they are published on every site and site, and then simply remain silent.”
“There are only two possibilities: either Rabbi Tao will present in a reasoned manner the evidence on which he was based and the ways in which he denies all the material in the hand of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu; The case of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu. “
Rabbi Bezeq refers to the consequences of Rabbi Tao’s conduct and writes: “Because what is the educational message behind the silence? That there is no objective scale to which a person is committed regarding the clarification of the truth? A rabbi and a public leader can make serious accusations That he is a sex offender, without establishing his words at all in the ears of the public? That students should in such a situation accept the words of their rabbi in blind faith? Is this the way of the Torah? “
At the end of his remarks, Rabbi Bezeq wrote: “Beyond the serious harm to the victims in the past, and in attempts to deal with the terrible phenomenon now and in the future, beyond the harm to Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and his court, silence is now a problem in itself.
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