Ukraine said Saturday it had captured the Israeli-American founder of a major online-marijuana marketplace, a day after he escaped while being extradited to the Jewish state.
Ukraine’s SBU security service said it had found Amos Dov Silver in “one of the regions of our country” and said he would be extradited to Israel “in the near future.”
While the drug most prominently sold on Telegrass was marijuana, the indictment stated that other, more serious drugs including LSD and MDMA were also marketed.
The State Prosecutor’s Office estimated that hundreds of millions of shekels were circulated through the network over the past two years, with the suspects mediating between more than 3,000 drug sellers and some 200,000 buyers, pocketing roughly NIS 30 million ($8.36 million) in the process.
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This fellow grew up in a Charedi home in Tzfat and went off the derech and on to drugs as a teenager.
Says the Torah:
השמרו לכם פן יפתה לבבכם
Be careful lest your heart be seduced.
And then what? You will not be the greatest Tzadik? You will forget to say Yaaleh Vi-yavo sometimes on Rosh Chodesh? You will skip Tachanun for no reason? You will rely on the Star K?
No - וסרתם ועבדתם אלהים אחרים והשתחויתם להם.
You are going to exchange Hashem, Reality, Existence, Meaning, with a cow or statue to which you are going to bow down. Or in the modern version - you are going to become a servant of the lowest תאוות - drugs, Arayos etc. etc.
To have neither Hashem nor to be addicted to תאוות or technologies or money or ego etc. etc. is very rare. It is one or the other.
Life and good or death and evil. No middle ground.
