By Rabbi Dovid E. Eidensohn
A few hours ago today, Sunday March 27, I called up Rav
Hillel David and protested that nobody knew what Reb Dovid’s Beth Din has
ruled. He replied that the Beth Din was created to serve Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky
who had asked for it. Other people will not be notified of what the Beth Din
paskened. If I want to know what the Beth Din paskened, he said, I must speak
to Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky.
I then pointed out that Tamar is with a man not her husband,
which is adultery that could easily lead to a child born who is a mamzer. Do
the rabbis of the Beth Din not have an obligation to prevent mamzerim being
born and women prevented from committing adultery?
As regards the decision of the Beth Din to limit its reach
to one person, this is against a clear gemora in Shabbos 54b and 55A, “Whoever
has the power to prevent somebody from sinning and does not do it, is punished
with the sin he did not prevent.” If the Beth Din with its prominent rabbis
could compel Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky to tell Tamar to leave her boyfriend but
the Beth Din refuses, the sin of Tamar will go on the Beth Din. If the Beth Din
could prevent adultery from Tamar’s part but refuses to do this, the sin of
adultery goes on the Beth Din.
I want to mention several things in connection with the
above. One, Rav Hillel David was very kind to speak to me as long as I wanted and he
answered what he felt was the right answer, although I disagree with it. Two,
we do not know the deeper thoughts of Reb Dovid Feinstein. He is dealing with some very
difficult people and he may need many weeks to put his efforts into play.
Despite this, I feel it is great mitzvah to publicize the ridiculous state of
the Torah, where a woman leaves her husband, refuses to work out a GET, and is
told that she can remarry without a GET, something that is shown to be a
complete lie.
I therefore want to make the following statement: This is
the end of respect for Gedolim in America. If Reb Moshe was alive, he would
smash the whole swarm with his power. But Reb Dovid does not have this power.
He is limited to awaiting RSK’s acceptance of his Beth Din, which undoubtedly required
some bending of the sin of RSK lest he just ignore the Beth Din. And if RSK and
RNG ignore the Beth Din, many women will feel it is Daas Torah by the opinions
of major ninety year old rabbis to leave a husband without a GET. We must
therefore complain about the lack of power to stop what must be stopped, but we
must respect the reality that it is not so easy to do today what could be done
in earlier generations. We don’t have the gedolim anymore.
And if this is the reality, I am calling for a person here
and a person there to help me establish a group of old fashioned Jews who want
to keep the Shulchan Aruch properly, without adultery, without mamzeruth, and
without begging reshoim to please come to our Beth Din if we will behave.
If you are interested
in this project, please contact me at dddeid@verizon.net
or 845-578-1917. Remember, I am happy to do the difficult work. But I need
people here and there who can help me. Please realize that if this tragedy of
begging RSK to come to Beth Din is not challenged, that is the end of the Torah
in America.
