English Rabbi C Avraham-green Letter

FREE TRANSLATION RABBI CHYIM SH. ABRAHAM 95 LORIMER ST. BROOKLYN, NY 11206 (718) 388-4411

‫ד”סב‬

Dear Rabbi Moshe Green It has come to my attention that you have written a disparaging letter in English to a Supreme Court Judge, concerning my revered father. In your letter, you declare that any Get written at my father’s Bais Din has questionable validity and is unacceptable since such a Get will cause a woman to retain her married status, and any future offspring from a new marriage will be considered mamzeirim (bastards). It is well known that your statements were made on behalf of Mrs Oberlander; a recalcitrant, slanderous thief, and vicious informer, in order to continue baseless lies that she is an Agunah (chained woman). In the name of Justice, Righteousness, and our holy Torah, I demand a thorough response from you to the following sins which you have committed: 1) Shaming and slandering my father First and foremost, I protest the humiliation of my revered father “Chief Justice and Grand Rabbi of the Bais Din Kedushas Levi. My father has been a Rabbi for many years involved in community affairs with honesty and earnesty and without seeking honor and glory from his sacred work. He has many years of experience in arranging for Gittin, and has done so with the strictest standards of piety and “Fear of Hashem”, and also received commendations from great Rabbis. I’m greatful that no Halachic calamities has ever arisen from any of his Gittin. I’m very upset and disturbed at your statements and slander which makes my father appear like an ignoramus in the Get process. It is well known in our Torah, that a slanderer who spreads lies about another person can “lose his portion in the next world” as well as to descend in Gehinnom (hell).Our sages state that he who embarrases a Rabbi is to be “ex-communicated until he appeases him”. Your attempts to minimize your statements by making such remarks as: “ I never said the Get is invalid, but rather stated that I will not officiate at a marriage of a woman who was divorced by Rabbi Abraham”,is ridiculous and very sneaky. Your remarks are no different than a Rabbi who states that he won’t eat meat at a certain individual’s home. Even if the Rabbi does not declare his meat unkosher, the very fact that he declared that he wont eat at his home is tantamount testimony that his meat is unkosher! 2)Shaming and degrading a Bais Din How does a person like yourself degrade and humiliate a Bais Din and spread false rumors without substantial evidence to back your

claims! According to Halacha(Jewish law),every Bais Din is presumed to be kosher and valid unless proof is provided to the contrary.(my father should be treated no differently than the infamous Moshe Finkel whom you gave the benefit of the doubt years before the truth was revealed that he sold non-kosher meats to the Jewish public!!) My father has officiated many Gittin in the past with many children born to remarriage of these women. The rumors and lies that you are spreading is uncessarily causing a “LAAZ ON THE GET”,which we know that the revered Rabeinu Tam has issued a strong condemnation and ex-communication on any individual who dares to spread baseless lies on any GET. 3)Shaming of the innocent and pure In the name of the innocent children begotten from a marriage after a GET was issued from the above Bais Din, I protest and demand an explanation as to how you falsely raise a doubt of legitimacy of these children as to possibly render them “MAMZEIRIM” with insufficient proof and with plenty of malice! Once again the Torah warns against such behavior and warns of the impending punishment. 4)condemning the righteous and justifying the wicked I,m dumbfounded how is it that for many years you remained silent about the Gittin officiated by the Bais Din of Rabbi Landesman, where real questionable Gittin are being executed on a daily basis. It is well known that Rabbi Moshe from Satmar had issued a letter invalidating Rabbi Landesman’s Gittin because of his involvement with Rabbi Wolmark in having men “roughed up” in order to extract a Get from them. These type of Gittin are invalid because they were obtained under coercion and duress, yet you remained silent to that Bais Din’s actions!! It is precisely for this very reason why my father undertook to officiate Gittin after seeing such blatant Rabbinic corruption in the Get process! 5)Helping out a Sinner Your letter appears to be addressed to your students at large. Do you really believe that you could fool Hashem? (Master Of The Universe) What Rabbi renders a Halachic decision in English? Everyone knows that your letter was written specifically for the Supreme Court Judge presiding on the Oberlander-Rappaport Divorce case. You had hoped that the Judge will take heed to your letter and render the Get that Mr Rappaport deposited in my father’s Bais Din invalid; but Hashem had other plans. Mrs Rappaport’s evil plan was to pretend she is an “AGUNAH” so that the New York Get Law should award her all of the marital assets! There are rumors that say that you received a large “payoff” to produce this letter. How shameful can a Rabbi like you stoop to such behavior! It is a disgrace to the Torah that a Rabbi would aid a woman in violating the Torah’s commandment against arbitrating and litigating a fellow Jew in the Civil Courts. Mrs Oberlander-Rappaport has even tried to have her husband arrested and has attempted to forcibly extricate a Get in the Supreme Court which is obviously an invalid Get! (attached herein see letter from a Bais Din Shaar Hamishpot strongly condemning the actions of Mrs Rappaport and that of her parents) It is therefore with great pain and anguish that I seek to hear from you why you have not protested such a woman’s actions but instead lent her support to continue in her vicious and wicked ways. How is it that you do not fear what the great sage “RAMA” stated in

(Choshen Mishpot 26-1) “that we excommunicate and condemn anyone that assists a person who litigates in the Civil Courts prior to the Jewish Courts!” Please don’t pretend to not know of this Halacha, after Rabbi Avrohom Gestetner issued you a letter on the month of Shvat 5766 clearly explaining to you the details of this case and the Halachic ramifications,and you persisted to ignore the warnings issued to you. If you feel that I or Rabbi Gestetner have erred in Halacha, then please send us written proof to support your actions. You have an obligation to refute or to shut up. It is no wonder why in our generation the people have lost respect for Rabbis! Woe to us that we have stooped so low! It is my sincerest hope that for the sake of honoring the Torah, you will reply to this letter soon, for if I do not receive a reply I will be left with no choice but to publicize this letter to the public so that my revered father will be vindicated from such false accusations. Signed on the 8th day of Teves 5768

______________________________ Chaim Shlomo Abraham