Let’s do something about the mamzerim. How awful to talk
about mamzerim. I once met a doubtful mamzer. I was involved when gedolei hador
argued if he was a mamzer or not. I got
to know the fellow in a special way. I never in my life saw such yiras
shomayim. After I risked my life and got him a heter from the gedolim in Israel
to ask his shaalo to Reb Moshe who permitted him to marry, he refused it. He
said, “I am an Israeli and want my rabbonim to pasken.” A young man, just like
that, and he gave up his life. Because his rabbonim were not going to permit
him to remarry. They told him to go to Reb Moshe because they would not permit
him to marry. And he refused to go. I found a Rov who spoke to him and
convinced him to go to Reb Moshe. And these are the holy neshomose that are
flooding the market with mamzerim and doubtful mamzerim. What will we say to
them? I know what I will say to them. I fought for you tooth and nail. But what
will you say to them? In a hundred and twenty years, what will we say to the heavenly
court, that we did enough?
My failure in this regard is that I am doing things on my
own. I got my brother on his blog involved. That made quite a difference. Husbands
who were being battered without mercy because his wife was a cousin of a major
Rosh Yeshiva or because her father was a friend of a major Rosh Yeshiva, now
had a friend, little me, and my brother. And we gave back, full blast. I
challenged the Rosh Yeshivas and Dayanaim: What is your source to permit this
coercion? The vast majority of them never even spoke to the husband. They just
signed letters to destroy him because the corrupt Rosh Yeshiva asked them to. Their
corruption and ignorance was revealed for all to see. And when one of them
finally got around to producing a source, I made thirteen pages to refute it.
My work was accepted by the rabbonim in Israel and letters went all around the country
forbidden coercion through humiliation. Then a sefer was put out with these
warnings, signed by Gedolei HaDor including Rav Chaim Kanievsky and Rav Shmuel
HaLevi Wosner shlit”o. But the inventors of excuses to free a woman are still
busy.
And if this blog of mine in two weeks got about four
thousand page views, it was because my brother pushed it on his blog. But is
that the end?
I got a phone call yesterday from a prominent Head of Beth
Din in a major city. He told me that he had a Din Torah that day, and major
rabbis of the community were there. He discussed with them what I am doing to
fight coerced divorces that make mamzerim. One Rov knew about me and had seen
my writings. The other Rov knew nothing about me or the entire subject. So we
need more people to be informed about what is going on. At least every Rov must
know not to perform kiddushin when one of the couple is the product of a
coerced GET. Otherwise the Rov will himself create mamzerim.
A lot of people read this blog. But this is war. It is war
for the next generation. Just as there are now many Roshei Yeshiva and rabbis
who permit a woman to escape her marriage with coercions and worse, such as the
Philadelphia idiot who permits a woman to leave her husband without a GET,
despite the fact that the husband wants to give a GET if the wife will fix up
the custody situation, after she left the city the husband lives in. Yes,
tomorrow will be more idiots and inevitably, more mamzerim. I ask you, what are
you going to do about it? Or isn’t that your business? If we have a world where
the rabbonim do nothing when a Rosh Yeshiva permits a woman to remarry with no
GET, who is tending the store? I ask this, and in the next world, it will be on
the agenda.
