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Aaron Akaberi showed up to New York State Supreme Court in Downtown Brooklyn dressed in pages of holy Hebrew writings.

On Wednesday, September 14, a drug suspect who at a pre-trial hearing was banned from reading Torah in the courtroom showed up to Brooklyn Supreme Court donning an outfit made of religious texts. 

Aaron Akaberi wore a shirt that he put together using newsprint pages of the holy Hebrew writings of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He also donned a hat created out of white paper with religious passages, including a revised version of the Ten Commandments, “The Seven Commandments.” 

The outfit was worn to protest Judge Martin Murphy, who at a previous pre-trial hearing, denied Akaberi’s request to read passages from his Jewish texts into the court record. 

The 30-year-old Akaberi said, “The Judge wouldn’t let me read my ‘Chayenu’ in court, so I decided to wear it. There’s a new ‘Chayenu’ each week, so I have to reconstruct the piece for each appearance.”

Akaberi is charged with the possession of cocaine, LSD, marijuana, MDMA, and other “dangerous substances.”

The Post was later told by Akaberi that he was merely “silently” reading his texts while waiting for “courtroom pomp and circumstance.” This account is rejected by court sources that insist he recited passages out loud to the judge. 

According to The Post, “Despite being all dressed up, Akaberi had nowhere to go, as his hearing was adjourned to a later date. The Brooklyn man has a colorful history of being involved in bizarre incidents.

He was booted from the United States Air Force Academy because of his strict adherence to ‘Aaronism,’ had prevented him from participating in training, sources said.

Akaberi then made headlines in 2006 when he went on a 12-day hunger strike at Binghamton University to protest not being given food complaint with the Rastafarian faith — which was his next religion of choice. 

He even got mocked in segment of the ‘The Daily Show’ with Jon Stewart.”

Sources with law enforcement told The Post the Akaberi is “manipulative psychopath.”

The only thing that Akaberi would tell The Post regarding his current legal situation was that he pled “not guilty.”

By Hannah Hayes

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