Is he scared now? Daniel Amram, the outspoken critic who shocked social media when he uploaded a video of himself burning a pair of tefillin, in protest of what he called "religious coercion," uploaded another video on his Facebook page, in which he claims: The tefillin were not burned.
According to him, he wants to 'drop a bombshell' and announce that the tefillin were not burned. ''Look, maybe there's a little bit of a burn on them, but they weren't burned.''.
Amram added that apart from this, there were no parshits in the tefillin.
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""There's nothing here, I bought these tefillin houses for a hundred shekels and they have no sanctity from a halachic perspective, only houses that once had parshiot in them have sanctity, there's no problem with burning it.".
Amram made it clear that listeners must accept his halakhic determinations, since 'he is a former yeshiva student.'.
He said that he returned his private tefillin to his parents, and therefore 'everything you thought about the video, the whole mess, all four thousand five hundred curses, is completely unnecessary.'.
So why did you do it? The young man was asked and replied: "It was necessary, I'm sure it moved something in people's minds, by God, there are people who don't believe, not like you, try to accept the other.".
He later claimed: "What do you think I'm going to burn tefillin when I have an ultra-Orthodox family? I went to them and brought them the old tefillin. I'm going to make some kind of mess to provoke people on Facebook. It's not tefillin, it's not a prohibition, it's nothing.".
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Attorney Ben Gvir appealed to the Attorney General demanding that the tefillin burner be stopped.
As reported on Friday in Haredim 10, Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir sent an urgent letter to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, several hours before the start of Shabbat, demanding that he open an investigation and arrest Daniel Amram, after he published a video in which he was recorded burning tefillin.
Attorney Ben Gvir appealed to Mandelblit demanding that an investigation be opened, and among other things, he wrote: "There is no doubt that in Mr. Amram's actions he committed various offenses, including hurting religious feelings, insulting religion, and even inappropriate behavior in a public place.".
""It is clear to all of us that if it were a young boy from the hills who burns a Koran and uploads it to the Internet, the police would arrive at his house within minutes and he would be arrested. Amram's case should not be any different. I demand that you open an investigation and order his arrest.".
Ben Gvir mentions that just a few weeks ago, a girl was arrested in the Old City after shouting at an Arab: "Mohammed sells sweets." The girl was questioned on suspicion of insulting religion, while Ben Gvir is currently demanding that the boy who repeated the question be arrested as well.
In a conversation with Haredim 10, Attorney Ben Gvir says: "It doesn't really matter whether there were affairs or not.".
In any case, are these false claims by a young man who belatedly realized the magnitude of his criminal actions, and perhaps feared the arm of the law - or are these indeed true claims? Only after the Attorney General decides whether the video will be forwarded to a police investigation will we know the truth.
Either way, the video of the young Haredi man who studied at a prestigious yeshiva, in which he is seen burning tefillin - even if it is a symbolic act or a pete-morgana, is shocking to the depths of the soul of every person with a Jewish soul beating within them.
