If the previous post was based on a actual events then I must update that he admitted in front of his yeshiva that he made a mistake and that he takes responsibility.
What I don't understand is how he and his talmidim were singing and dancing after the psak din [which found him guilty and forbade him from ever giving counsel and dealing with Shalom Bayis in addition to allowing him to keep teaching] was rendered [as evidenced by a video that circulated]. What is there to be so happy about? They should be sitting on the floor crying for the horrific חילול השם that was caused and for the fact that their esteemed Rosh Yeshiva was נכשל in such an aveirah over a protracted period of time. The Meforshim explain that the problem with the Eigel Hazahav wasn't merely the Eigel that the Jews made but the fact that they danced around it. When a sin is committed, the LAST thing one does is celebrate. That is why Moshe broke the Luchos when he saw them dancing.
וַיְהִי כַּאֲשֶׁר קָרַב אֶל הַמַּחֲנֶה וַיַּרְא אֶת הָעֵגֶל וּמְחֹלֹת וַיִּחַר אַף מֹשֶׁה וַיַּשְׁלֵךְ מידו [מִיָּדָיו] אֶת הַלֻּחֹת וַיְשַׁבֵּר אֹתָם תַּחַת הָהָר.
For us the message remains the same: It is human to make mistakes even though we must always try our hardest to avoid them. If we do fall, then we admit our failing, make amends, do Teshuva, cry, learn mussar, give a lot of tzdaka as a kappara and move on bi-simcha.
One great benefit of appreciating all of our inadequacies is that they absolve us from the need to be critical of others and speak lashon hara about them. We should be sooooo busy fixing ourselves that we have no time to knock down others. To see faults in others is easy. It requires no work on our part, no sacrifice of ego. On the contrary, our ego is inflated when we can demonstrate how inferior others are in comparison to ourselves. To admit that one is riddled with faults and to be in a constant process of change and growth is HARD WORK and requires us to negate our ego and to admit our inadequacies and deficiencies - and OF COURSE we do that bi-simcha, as Maran Ha-Rav ztz"l discusses in Oros Hateshuva.
