WHY ARE WE SILENT WHEN FAKE “RABBIS” GIVE FAKE GITTIN?

BY RABBI DOVID E. EIDENSOHN

 

WHY ARE WE SILENT WHEN DR. RACKMAN’S “BETH DIN” GIVES WOMEN FROM HAREDI FAMILIES FREEDOM TO REMARRY WITHOUT A GET? WHY DO WE NOT MAKE A GREAT EFFORT TO FIND THE WOMEN WHO REMARRY USING THIS HETER AND BRAND THE WOMAN AN ADULTERER AND HER CHILDREN MAMZERIM?

 

WHY ARE WE SILENT WHEN A SENIOR RCA RABBI ABSOLVES THE MARRIAGE OF A COUPLE WITHOUT A GET BECAUSE OF “MEKACH TOOSE” WHEN HE HAS NO PROOF THAT THIS IS SO? WHY IS THIS PARTICULAR RABBI STILL CONTROLLING MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE ISSUES?

 

WHY ARE WE SILENT WHEN “RABBIS” FORCE A HUSBAND TO GIVE A GET BEFORE SETTLING FISCAL AND CUSTODY ISSUES. THIS IS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF THE RAMO AND THE PESAK OF REB MOSHE FEINSTEIN ZT”L WHO SAYS THAT 1) THIS IS FORBIDDEN, ALSO, 2)THE CUSTOM FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS WAS TO DIVORCE ONLY AFTER THE FISCAL AND OTHER ISSUES WERE RESOLVED AND THAT 3) SOMETIMES, THIS CAN LEAD TO AN INVALID GET?

 

WHY WHEN NO BETH DIN HAS DECREED THAT THE HUSBAND MUST DIVORCE, DO CERTAIN RADICAL ELEMENTS EXERT GREAT PRESSURES UPON THE HUSBAND TO DIVORCE, INCLUDING PUBLIC HUMILIATION, WHICH ACCORDING TO THE TORAH IS CONSIDERED  MURDER?

 

WHY WHEN NO BETH DIN HAS DECREED THAT A HUSBAND MUST GIVE A GET DO SOME COMMUNITIES OSTRACIZE THE HUSBAND WITH THE PIRUD OF RABBEINU TAM? ARE THESE COMMUNITIES NOT AWARE THAT ALTHOUGH THE LEVUSH PERMITS THIS HE IS OPPOSED BY THE RAMO, THE SHACH, THE GR”O, THE BEIS EPHRAIM, AND THE CHAZON ISH, AMONG OTHERS. WHAT KIND OF RABBINIC DECISION IS THIS TO MAKE A GET CONSIDERED POSUL BY FIVE OF THE GREATEST POSKIM,  BECAUSE ONE POSEK IS LENIENT?

 

WHY ARE WE SILENT WHEN WICKED PEOPLE TELL RELIGIOUS WOMEN TO GET A HEAD START ON THEIR HUSBANDS WHEN DIVORCE IS IMMINENT BY GOING TO THE POLICE AND GETTING UNWARRANTED ORDERS OF PROTECTIONS, OR BY GETTING CIVIL DIVORCES AND THEN HAVING THEIR HUSBANDS EJECTED FROM HIS HOME? WHAT KIND OF “RABBIS” PERMIT THIS?