The rabbinical court in Kiryat Sefer published an advertisement about a 'refuse to pay' roaming the city: "The resident... is in complex distress and, with a flattering mouth, is taking large sums of money from people under the guise of requesting a very short-term loan.".
The announcement by the court, headed by the Honorable Rabbi Kessler, is highly unusual, but at the same time completely logical.
Why an exception?
Because the rabbinical court in Israel is considered toothless and powerless in the field of economic fraud and financial fraud. The court acts as an arbitrator and arbiter only when both sides of the conflict are interested in it. In such a case, it may even impose a 'boycott' on those who refuse to comply with the ruling.
On the other hand, the Rabbinical Court has not served as an economic policeman, as a financial advisor who gives advice to the citizens. The powerless court uses its abilities only in purely legal questions, but never acts as an active economic institution.
So why does it make sense?
Because the court is held in Kiryat Sefer, in a community that operates as a 'cultural enclave' as sociologists like to call it, and an enclave of laws and financial institutions of its own. Economic institutions? Yes, for example: the Gemachim institution, which operates as a powerful economic instrument within the Haredi enclave and only within it.
So the man in the ad, perhaps out of his distress, refuses to take his fate into his own hands, and the legal authorities have no way of acting on the matter. But the court, the group's gatekeeper, recognizes the charisma of the swindler, which probably also harms the "ultra-Orthodox economic institutions," and thus a rare poster was born that will never appear on secular or national-religious streets, for example.
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