What if the Torah scholar is a terrible person and whose actions are in danger of hurting a lot of people like a Rabbi who sexually abuses people or emotionally abuses people?
Rabbi Lazer Brody answers: if the "Rabbi" is guilty of abuse, he must be turned over to the authorities in order to prevent him from harming additional victims – all the Israeli poskim hold this way, for this is something that is not tolerated in Israel. I know of one instance in a certain Chassidic group where they didn't want to turn the abuser in, but they disciplined the abuser in a way that the abuser wished he would have been in jail instead.
6/27/2016
What if the Rabbi is a bad person?
What if the Torah scholar is a terrible person and whose actions are in danger of hurting a lot of people like a Rabbi who sexually abuses people or emotionally abuses people?
Rabbi Lazer Brody answers: if the "Rabbi" is guilty of abuse, he must be turned over to the authorities in order to prevent him from harming additional victims – all the Israeli poskim hold this way, for this is something that is not tolerated in Israel. I know of one instance in a certain Chassidic group where they didn't want to turn the abuser in, but they disciplined the abuser in a way that the abuser wished he would have been in jail instead.