The Jewish Nation is
built up from Jewish Communities around the world. And the cornerstone
of the Jewish Community is the Jewish Family. The Zohar says that the
first word in the Torah has six letters that spell בית ראש meaning “the
house comes first.” The house and the family are the beginning and key
element of the Torah and the Jewish experience.
Yet,
the concept of Jewish Family, as handed down from generation to
generation, is under attack. There are many broken homes. Children are
adrift as they shuttle back and forth from their two-family homes. They
struggle to balance the fights of their parents with their own need to
survive. Husbands are suddenly bereft of their wife and children. Wives
find themselves abruptly alone with children and small resources. But
the pain of parents and children pales beside the pain of the child born
when a woman remarries without a Get or with a coerced and invalid Get.
Children born from another man -- not the true husband of the wife --
are Mamzerim, and such Gittin are great problems. ORA is an organization
that prides itself on having publicly torturing dozens of husbands who
subsequently gave coerced Gittin, and who caused problems of Mamzerus. I
wonder if ORA’s mentor, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, will encourage his
progeny to marry these children. And when the Kamenetskys in
Philadelphia finish getting a married woman remarried without a Get, I
wonder if they will encourage their grandchildren to marry her children
who will be considered Mamzerim by those who believe in the Shulchan
Aruch.
Yes,
there are Rabbis who advise women to remarry either without a Get or
with a coerced and invalid Get. But the great Rabbis of Israel reject
these innovations. Any child born to a woman who remarries based on an
invalid Get, will be considered by most Rabbis to be a Mamzer.
Failure
to resist those who attack the Family will mean that the Jewish People
will split into two camps that cannot marry from one to the other. If
present trends continue, the assorted “solutions” of marrying without a
Get, as is now being done in Philadelphia, or coercion of the husband,
which goes on elsewhere, will produce Mamzerim, and also doubtful
Mamzerim; many women who will be told that their Get is not acceptable
will have to divorce their new husband, while their children may have a
permanent status of Mamzerim.
One
Talmid Chacham has assumed the mantle of leadership. His teachers, the
Gedolim of the past generation, directed him to publicly teach the
Halachos of marriage and family. Through intensive discussions he had
with these leaders, he was able to receive the right and true Tradition
on how to preserve and expand the Jewish People.
I
have the privilege to serve this Talmid Chacham. He is Rabbi Dovid
Eidensohn, who I have worked with for years, and have had the merit to
also provide with truly modest financial support.
Join our efforts of educating the Jewish people about the problems of invalid Gittin. My phone number is (301) 754-1128.
Please
click the Paypal link to the right. Donate $1. Do it now. Do it for the
Eternity of the Jewish People, and for your eternal reward. When you
see the new Mamzerim, you will be able to say, “I did what I could.”
Yosef Orlow
