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Poskim and gedolim issue letter of compliance for Lakewood bais din stating from today onward the bais din of the “Bais Havaad of Lakewood” is not presumed to be a legitimate bais din - un-til they comply with the abovementioned demand without delays or pretexts and in a manner that we find satisfactory.
Full text of letter:
Psak Halacha from Leading Gedolim and Poskim Regarding the Status of the “Bais Havaad of Lakewood”
"It has been some time since leading Rabbanim and Roshei Bais Din asked a panel of mem-
bers of the “Bais Havaad of Lakewood” to consent to a hearing before an agreed- upon
third-party Bais Din to present any and all investigations, processes, evidence and find-
ings upon which they based their ruling which permitted (or misled others to permit) a
kohen to marry a giyores. To date, the requested hearing has not taken place.
We therefore state our opinion, that since the members of the abovementioned panel con-
tinue to serve as dayanim at the “Bais Havaad of Lakewood”, from today onward the bais
din of the “Bais Havaad of Lakewood” is not presumed to be a legitimate bais din - un-
til they comply with the abovementioned demand without delays or pretexts and in a
manner that we find satisfactory.
Therefore, henceforth: a) one is not obligated to respond to any summons (hazmana)
issued by the “Bais Havaad of Lakewood” and b) any document or certificate attesting
to a maaseh bais din that may have been performed by, or have had the involvement of
any of the abovementioned dayanim (including permission to marry based on gittin that
they administer henceforth) is not presumed to be a valid maaseh bais din. (See Chazon Ish CM Likutim 2:1-2.)
To this we affix our signatures, with much pain,
Rabbi Shloime Miller Rosh Kollel & Av Bais Din of Toronto; Rosh Bais Din of Bais Horaah of Lakewood
Rabbi Elya Ber Wachtfogel, Rosh Yeshiva of South Fallsburg
Rabbi Avrohom Bromberg, Rosh Yeshiva Shaar HaTalmud
Rabbi Sariel Rosenberg, Av Bais Din of Bnei Brak (founded by Rav Nissim Karelitz)
Rabbi Nochum Eisenstein, Rav of Maalot Dafna Yerushalayim
Rabbi Asher Hachuel, Sephardic Bet Din of America
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, Av Bais Din of London
Rabbi Yitzchok Stein, Av Bais Din Faltichan Brooklyn
Rabbi Yisroel Shlomowitz, Rav of Yeshiva and Kehila South Fallsburg
No Lakewood poskim?
ReplyDeleteThe Lakewood pokim agree that this is problematic. Not calling them publicly gives the BHV an opportunity to climb down from their tree and seek help from the Lakewood poskim to save face, while reversing their error.
DeleteDf to check your car and any car you pass by for kids
ReplyDeleteCan someone please explain what is going on with the Bais Havaad? What is this about?
ReplyDeleteA year ago, R' sholom kamenetsky's bais havaad issued a crazy psak, for the past year they've been asked by all the rabbonim to explain themselves, and they stonewalled. Finally all the rabbonim had enough. A bais din that hides and won't take responsibility for what they pasken, is not a bais din, and their hazamos may be fully ignored.
DeleteSomeone please explain. A Psak regarding a Lakewood Bais Din, without even one signature from a Lakewood RY/Posek/Dayan ????
ReplyDeleteLooks like politics at its best. A Din Torah that one of the parties lost and was willing to bashmutz a respected Mosad in our community. You are right, not one Lakewood Rov Dayan or Rosh Kollel signed on it because this is politics at its best. If we learned anything from Korach, we should all stay far away from all this. I belieive this Kol Korei should be ignored.
DeleteCorrect. And I'm aware of at least a few of the signatories which are related to the subject party and are therefore passul to give any psak on this matter.
DeleteA few months ago At least three dayanim who were part of the Bais Havaad bais din for many years resigned and broke away from the bais Havaad.
DeleteThey left because they saw the corruption and didn't want to be part of it.
This is real! Not motivated by any Negios aka politics
Bais havvaad trolls. There's obviously issues with the bais havvad
DeleteNo this is not from a losing party. The family in question wishes it would be over, however the gedolim brosham rav wachtfogel insist on continuing as they see this as something that they cannot let someone get away with such a hirus hadas.
DeleteThe Lakewood pokim agree that this is problematic. Not calling them publicly gives the BHV an opportunity to climb down from their tree and seek help from the Lakewood poskim to save face, while reversing their error.
DeleteSo signing a tzetl shows that they are against the BHV. And not signing the tzetl shows that they are against the BHV.
DeleteAwesome logic!
https://fixinglakewood.blogspot.com/2025/06/laskin-kehuna-year-and-half-later.html
ReplyDeleteMuch rambling no substance.
DeleteThose who are intimately involved in the pesak, see no reason to care about the signs.
DeleteThose who are on the outside are complaining.
What does that tell you?
They obviously avoided asking for any signature of a Lakewood personality.
ReplyDeleteSadly, Lakewood rabbonim are afraid of the powerful bais havaad, and won't come out publicly against them, but they are all behind this letter.
ReplyDeleteAnd what proof do you have to back up such a statement?
DeleteBaloni. They are not behind this letter,
DeleteAt least to rabonim who singed are Lakewood's esteem Torah personalities.
ReplyDeleteOne is a prominent rosh yeshiva and one is rav and a leading posek
the rosh yeshiva lives in lakewood (for the past few years since he moved from new york) but his yeshiva is not in lakewood. the "rov and leading posek" does not live in lakewood and is related to one of the parties in the din torah
DeleteRav Bromberg is a noted Rov and posek too.
DeleteI just heard from a chushve Rov that he already had a few phone calls today asking about previously gitten issued by bais havaad.
ReplyDeleteCherem Rabbenu Tam forbids "Motzi laaz" on a get.
DeleteNobody is being motze laz on a past issued get. Read the letter. Future gets are a different story.
DeleteAny comment against teh Bais HaVaad is PURE Motzei Shem RA! Think twicw before putting in your 2 cents. And NO, there is absolutely no toeles here, your comments are not helping either side.
ReplyDeleteNot motzie shem ra at all!! This letter was publicized!!
DeleteIt's absolutely a toeles to inform the public not get stuck with arbitration at an invalid bais din
DeleteAnd lets say this is all a scam? And you are being motzei shem ra against Bais HaVaad?
DeleteJust because something is publicized doesnt mean you are not over motzei shem ra bu talking about it, in fact you are helping spread it further! Go open a sefer chofetz chaim, I am sure you will be enlightened.
DeleteEach name on letter very respected in their own right. Big names. As for the Lakewood names. Rav Miller and Rav Bromberg are about as Lakewood as you get. Rav Miller signature speaks for the entire bais horaah. Besides most Lakewood Rabbonim are involved with one bais din or another, and can't sign because of conflict of interests.
ReplyDeleteA number of Rabbanim have resigned from the Bais Din which should be sufficient proof that there are internal issues.
ReplyDeleteDo you know their cheshbonos? Think before you talk! It could be machriv something very big!
DeleteThey wrote public letters as to why they resigned, and it's because bais havaad has become a circus.
DeleteDont beleive everything you read
DeleteThey resigned because of the kohein kiddush liberal envelope pushing.We need to restart from scratch
DeleteA 'number' is pushing it. Precisely two. And one of them is a family member of this 'circus'.
DeleteSo we have one person who resigned. Out of dozens.
1. Rav Miller is Lakewood.
ReplyDelete2. Rav Miller is the posek hador as Rav Ahron Feldman just stated at bmg asifa.
Rav Ahron Feldman is the machtir hador?
Deletenot sure if you know this but rav miller lives in toronto
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DeleteIf not for the Staten Island bridge discount (which they also messed up) I'd have gotten rid of it years ago.
R Bromberg is Bensonhurst
ReplyDeleteWhy si the other letter from the HRHG rabbi BEss, Rabbi Fuerst and Rabbi Elijah’s Levine being publicized as well
ReplyDeleteIn addition rabbi Elijah’s Levine has instructed them not to respond the kol koreh should have been written against Rabbi LEvine as well unless people are scared of rabbi Levine and not of the Torah he and the other rabunim represent ?
Rav Wasserman is family to the RY /founder.
ReplyDeleteI don't know this RYK, but he almost definitely is not a grandson to the CC.
Try grandson to RYK.
I learned in Denver. The yeshiva was started by Talmidim of Rav Aharon Kotler Zatzal. Rav Yitzchok Wasserman Shlita, Rav Yisroel Meir Kagan Shlita. (I believe there was also a 3rd Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Chaim Kahan, who was niftar young.) Rav Kagan was born the same year the Chofetz Chaim was niftar so his parents gave him the name Yisroel Meir. They are not related, even though they are also Kohanim.
DeleteRav Yaakov Kamenetzky is the grandson of Rav Kagan, as well as the son of Rav Shalom Kamenetzky Shlita (Rav Shalom's Rebbetzin is Rav Kagan's daughter).
Rav Nussbaum married Rav Wasserman's daughter.
We all voted for Schnall 2 years ago and we are still waiting for him something for Lakewood
ReplyDeleteHe promised a lot
As a Rosh Hamosad he promised me tuiton and money for RT 9
Ziltch!!!
Besides making Child Care owners richer!?!?
About rabbi Bess letter. This was written months ago, and showed to rabbonim, they weren't impressed at all. The letter that came out yesterday was with full knowledge of rabbi Bess letter.
ReplyDeleteWhat about rabbi Elijah’s Levine letter about this fire of a machlokes?
DeleteThis letter ignores Rabbi Bess' answers. That's why it's pretty much irrelevant.
DeleteObviously they don't consider it to be ignoring his letter, rather perhaps him ignoring that daas torah
Delete1. The Beis Havaad were not the ones who issued the heter. Nobody can show me anything from them that is matir this story. They did the research, on which the Rabbonim based their heter.
ReplyDelete2. The Beis Havaad have repeatedly shown a willingness to explain their research to anybody who really wishes to know the answer. But not to those who have already publicized their opinions against the Beis Havaad. For obvious reasons. Yet they are still attacked for 'not showing their reasoning.' One of those who signed against them was invited on the day he signed to come and see their reasoning, yet signed a letter that they are not showing anything.
3. The people behind this maaracha know all of the above, yet are pretending it didn't happen. Why? Why are people messing with your heads?
4. The people running this maaracha have had much practice in running maarachos. Most failed, but they are learning from their mistakes. They are pretending to piously demand halachic transparency, yet think they have hidden the pashkevilln they wrote, the blogposts they uploaded, and the claims they have made.
5. The end purpose here is to undermine the power of Beis Din. The Beis Havaad has settled countless disputes, in which both sides are satisfied. They have responsibly dealt with numerous Gittin, and with ease and smoothness that prevents the agunos issues that crop up on so many occasions. Losing sides of Dinei Torah are satisfied that their side was heard. Closing down the Beis Havaad, and especially Reb YY Semiatycki, means the entire town loses out. This is why no locals signed on to this maaracha, and this is why it will ultimately fail.
6. The question remains, during the WZO tumult, this wasn't a problem. Why not? What suddenly happened? The answer is clear. When the tumult makers have other occupations, this is a non-issue. Beware of people with too much extra time on their hands.
Same ibid.
DeleteAahhh the censored version of rgbess' letter. Wheres the uncensored version where he goes completely off the rails and calls anyone who disagrees with him a rasha?
ReplyDeleteMore hock in Lakewood. Does this have anything to do with the Westgate shul?
ReplyDeleteIf there's hock in Lakewood, Its the Westgate shul.
DeleteLakewood yungerlite should stick to learning and becoming Roshey Yeshiva and leave halachah and Batey Dinim to the Chassidim
ReplyDeleteCan someone please explain how this works. Can any group of rabonim decide one day to dismiss a beis din?
ReplyDeleteCan someone explain how this works. Can any bais din pasken about people who are not before then, and them dismiss the involuntary litigants complaints without providing a basis for their ruling and reasoning?
Delete7::59++ there's a bet din in America (not Lakewood) that does that all the time, yet no one does anything about them
DeleteThese aren't just any Rabbinical.
DeleteReb shlomo Miller Reb Elya Ber Reb Avrohom Bromberg. These are not your shtiebel rav, they are gedolei hador!
They explained themselves, with march mkomos, as opposed to other, oker dvurim pshutim. Going against the Basics always needs explanation.
DeleteMusk just turns out to be a whiny little child.
ReplyDeleteCool heads will prevail when the tumult simmers down and people realize there's politics at play here, at best, and chashuvims stance manipulated to malign a bais din that operates with the utmost Torah integrity. Cool heads will prevail as emes always emerges to the forefront, sheker has no legs. If it's a matter of time, then time it will be. Smear campaign of zelouts on the wrong side won't have the loudest megaphone for long as truth always emerges b'sof.
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha. A bais din that operates with utmost Torah integrity. What. A. Joke.
DeleteCool heads will prevail that you cannot be matir a cohen and a giores to marry. If you do, you need to transparently explain your psak to the greatest poskim.
DeleteThis is so similar to the bitul kidushin fiasco of a decade ago. Stonewalling, doubling down about a secret psak which matired an eishes ish without a get. Only when the outcry and pressure became so hot, did cooler heads prevail and some of the matirim went to a beis din of Rav Dovid Feinstein - which they chose - who confirmed that the original kiddushin was not botel.
Some of the same people - who secretly gave the heter back then - are involved in this bittul kehuna.
We look forward to this being resolved al pi halacha, very soon. For now, the great rabbonim have spoken.
Remember, yesterday was the first day of camp. Color war broke out immediately
ReplyDeleteThis panel was matir a kohen to marry a giyores and not willing to explain to anyone why the family is obviously fuming and rightfully so if they want to say they aren't kohanim please let us know before we give them kohen all the time the kuchen all the time torah is not your game to play it how you like it!!
ReplyDeleteAll you people out there that are motzei shem ra on the Bais HaVaad, repeat after me: ולא יהיה כקרח וכעדתו
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr. Bais Havvad. but Look at the names!!
ReplyDeleteSeems like Rav Elya ber is Moshe and the Bais Vaad is Korach
The panel run by the bais havad was matir a kohen to marry a giyores and is not willing to explain to anyone why it's permissable the family is obviously fuming and rightfully so and so is anyone with a little girls shamayim I mean we are giving the family kohen and they are duchaning evey yom tov and rightfully so they have chezkas kehuna if they know something they are mechuyav to tell if they aren't you obviously know they are fake torah is not a game to play with !!!
ReplyDeleteAnonymousJuly 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
ReplyDeleteThe panel run by the bais havad was matir a kohen to marry a giyores and is not willing to explain to anyone why it's permissable the family is obviously fuming and rightfully so and so is anyone with a little yiras shamayim I mean we are giving the family kohen and they are duchaning evey yom tov and rightfully so they have chezkas kehuna if they know something they are mechuyav to tell if they aren't you obviously know they are fake torah is not a game to play with !!!
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Sorry for pointing out something so obvious. To all those who claim to be arguing on the behalf of the family... The last thing they want is all this attention. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DeleteThe side that claims to be so angry with the psak rendered by rabonim thru the Bais Havaad actually do want all this noise, and even want it over any opportunity to talk and discuss. Anger does have a way of it's own.
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