Jewish Outreach
Congregation – Plans and Programs – Elul 5775-6
Rabbi Dovid E.
Eidensohn
Jewish Outreach Congregation has now several programs.
We give a weekly telephone conference on the laws of Even
Hoezer, marriage and family. Very few people know these laws. People are
inventing laws that create invalid Gittin. Women who remarry with these invalid
Gittin may have mamzerim for children.
Our blogspot www.torahhalacha.blogspot.com.
has over a hundred posts.. So far this year we have over 15,000 page views. The
emphasis is on Halacha in marriage and divorce. Few people know these laws and
a mistake in a GET can invalidate it. A woman who remarries with an invalid GET
can have children mamzerim.
We also have a website www.torahtimes.com,
with text and audio, and a blogspot with videos, www.torahmarriage.blogspot.com
. The videos are mostly about Rabbi Eidensohn’s personal study under Geonim Reb
Aharon Kotler and Reb Moshe Feinstein zt”l.
There is a growing trend for governments such as New York
and Quebec to force husbands to give a GET or lose custody or money. This makes
an invalid GET. Nobody is fighting this as we do. The disgrace of Rosh Yeshivas
and prominent rabbis coercing husbands who are married to their relatives,
etc., is also something we openly fight. And the Rosh Yeshivas in Philadelphia
who are encouraging a woman to remarry without a GET, despite the fact that the
husband would give a GET, is also publicly opposed by us, and we don’t know any
competition.
People have lost confidence in rabbis. Families are
collapsing. Children are leaving the Torah. Some don’t want to get married at
all. We are with our very limited resources, getting a small group of people
organized to fight these things.
I need about two hundred dollars a month just to survive
with the present programs to pay Verizon for the internet and the telephones
and upkeep of the old computers.
We are planning on putting our material into books, which
could produce income. But it costs money to produce books. I published some books that people read and
enjoy. But without money I could not advertise them, and the stores are not
interested in books that have no advertising. One book, Secret of the Scale,
deals with the critical issue of the gender wars and what the Torah in the
revealed and hidden law tells about male and female. I also published a book
The Torah that Was, the Torah that Will Be: Stories of Rosh Yeshivas, which was
the personal experiences I had with Reb Aharon Kotler, Reb Moshe Feinstein, and
other Gedolim. I have a new volume there bringing things up to date. It also
attempts to solve the present family and Yeshiva problems with past solutions.
Gedolim told me that the situation in Yeshivas is critical and must be fixed.
But I don’t see anyone doing any fixing.
We therefore are trying to expand our programs and the funds
needed for their upkeep.
I have done what I can. I am seventy-three years old. Alone,
I can’t continue. But with some help, we can really move.
If anyone wants to help, please contact me at:
Thank you.
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