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Sex offender Rabbi Elon holds first Torah lesson since conviction, but confronted by man who claims was sexually assaulted in past by another esteemed rabbi, beseeches Elon to ‘admit he sinned,’ says If he wasn’t such a great man I wouldn’t have bothered’
Maor Buchnik
Published: 08.07.13
Rabbi Moti Elon conducted his weekly Torah lesson in the Midgal Yeshiva Wednesday evening, just hours after being convicted for performing indecent sexual acts on a minor.
During the lesson, Rabbi Elon was confronted by Nahum Pechnik, a man attending the lesson, who stood up and yelled: “I want to tell you that you are a great man, but you need to find the courage to say ‘I have sinned’. You are a great man, admit that you’ve sinned.”
Pechnik, 40, a resident of Jerusalem, is a married father of four. According to him, in 1993 he himself was a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of another famous rabbi which he refused to name.
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