Health said
How can anyone stick up for such a verdict and claim to be a “Frum” Jew? And yet I’ve seen many “Frum” Jews doing just this.
Forget about how this was an injustice
My response:
It is not anti-semitic Russia three hundred years ago. It is modern day America. He got tried in a fair court and it is absurd to think otherwise. Stop bleating about injustice. The guy deserved what he got.
What was his defence? That she was trying to set him up because – wait for it – he installed CCTV to catch her in the act with her boyfriend. Hardly a resounding proof of innocence – if anything just the opposite! Not to mention the fact that he couldn’t explain the unusual purchases on his credit card. Or that he was discovered to be misusing his charity funds. The whole picture was undeniably odd and sinister and pointed to his guilt.
The sad thing is that people like Ben Levi get completely the wrong end of the stick and instead of warning against going to unlicensed, unqualified ‘therapists’ he actually advocates going to Mashgichim, Rabbonim etc. Therapy requires qualified professionals. There was a case in London of a girl who called a Rov pleading for help as she felt suicidal. He told her to call back after Shabbos, by which time she had ended her life. There is also a London case now, of an unlicensed Rabbinical therapist embroiled in an enormous mess because of unlicensed ‘therapy’ he was giving.