Rabbi Eliezer Berland, leader of the 'Shuvo Banim' community, who has been in custody for four months after being accused in the 'Black Oppression' affair, was released today (Thursday) from Tzalmon Prison and hospitalized at Poriya Hospital, after his medical condition deteriorated.
His associates said that he will undergo surgery tonight, and according to them, "it is a life-saving operation.".
Three courts against the leader of 'Shuvo Banim': "He who guards his soul, stay away from him!"‘
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About a month ago, three of the world's largest courts issued a harsh ruling against the leader of "Shubu Banim" and called: "He who guards his soul will stay away from him and we are obligated to act on this.".
The court was headed by the Gaon Rabbi Shariel Rosenberg, abbot of the Bnei Brak Beit Din Tzedek, founded by the Rabbinical Council of Carlitz, zt”l; the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer Stern, a judge of the Zichron Meir Beit Din Tzedek, founded by Rabbi Wasner zt”l and rabbi of West Bnei Brak; and the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Fischer, a judge of the Beit Din Tzedek of the Haredi community in Jerusalem.
After describing the content of the testimonies as ”acts that should not be done and extremely serious acts,” the judges state: “It is clear that according to the wisdom of our Holy Torah, whoever does not guard against things that are among the gravest and most serious, the guardian of his soul will keep him away from him and we are obligated to act accordingly.’.
The decision was joined by the Gabdun of the Haredi Eda, the Gaon Rabbi Yitzhak Tuvia Weiss, the Ravadun of the Haredi Eda, the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, and the Gabdun of Zichron Meir, the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Meir Halevi Wasner, and a long line of rabbis and dayanim, some of the most senior in the world. .
In the ruling, the judges also take a very harsh view of the Shabbatot that developed in the Shuvo Banim community, as an attempt to deal with the reality of ‘righteous – criminal,’ calling on the public to “root out and uproot this heretical opinion from within us.”.
