On Tuesday, December 31, 2019, in a neighborhood shul in Kiryat Malachi in Israel, in the presence of immediate family and close friends along with Jerusalem Chief Sephardi Rabbi, HaRav Shlomo Moshe Amar and HaRav Chaim Druckman, former President of Israel, Moshe Katsav will make a siyum of Shas.
Katsav was convicted of immoral behavior and harassment and was imprisoned. Katsav was released from prison in Kislev 2016 after serving five years of his seven-year sentence.
As a result of his imprisonment, he began learning daf yomi and continued following his release, and he will now being make a siyum on Shas Bavli.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
Does he keep Shabbos?
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He should keep on growing in yiddishkeit
he always kept shabbos! his challenge was chibuk v’nishuk! 🙂
if has not apologized to the women he abused, his teshuvah is meaningless according to normative halakha.
Better he should learn MISILAT YISHARIM.
Easy learning Shas in jail when you have all the time in the world. Try to make a living and take care off the family AND learn Shas , now that a feat!
Anyway Mazel tov to him just the same.
DrYidd, I was thinking the same. Malka Leifer, another predator, has 74 counts of Teshuva to do.
What was the purpose of stating his crimes? Was that appropriate of YWN to do? This information serves no practical purpose, which clearly makes this Lashon HaRa.