An open response to R. & Mrs. Broderick

An open response to R. & Mrs. Broderick:

Dear Rabbi & Mrs. Broderick

We are responding to your letter to the Bais Din.

You state (par. 1) “while Rabbi Yitzchak Abadi Shlita does serve as the Rabbinical advisor to Yeshiva Tifereth Torah”… he is not “connected to them… in any way”. You further state (ibid) “the indication that my mother made large donations to those institutions is simply untrue”.

lt is common knowledge that Yeshiva Tifereth Torah (founded and administrated by R. Abadi’s gabbai R. Yisroel Gelbwachs, and housed in R. Abadi’s house for many years) is completely R’ Abadi‘s Yeshiva in the fullest colloquial sense of the words. Anyone not from Lakewood can ascertain this from anyone in Lakewood.

As to your claim that Mrs. Ort did not make “large donations” to R. Abadi‘s institutions, we attach below the list, provided by Mrs. Ort’s lawyer, of her donations to Y.T.T. and R. Abadi‘s Shul, in the amounts of $70,000 & $29,000 respectively [totaling $99,000]. Perhaps you do not consider that “large donations”.

We do.

You state (par 2) that Rav Hershel Shechter is a “nogeiah b‘davar”, “and would certainly not be an impartial Dayan in this case”.

You present two factual reasons:

When applying to R.l.E.T.S. Kollel, your father was tested by R. Hershel Shechter.
Ray Shechter “signed a siruv against my cousin R. Yitzchak Adler“.

In short, you present that any Rav is “nogeiah b‘davar” if they either: a) had given one party a 15 minute bechina 27 years before, or: b) if they issued a siruv on a ba‘al din for refusing to come to Din Torah (as is standard practice in all Botei Din, as prescribed in Choshen Mishpat 11:1). It follows that no Bais Din can ever issue a siruv because they thereby render themselves unfit to be the Bais Din on that case.

We find it surprising that someone is not embarrassed to make such a ridiculous statement in public.

You state (par 4): “I have never spoken with R. Greenblatt and he has never discussed this issue with me”.

In his letter (below), R. Greenblatt quotes the answer which your husband gave him when he discussed this issue with him. Do you mean that your husband never told you about that conversation? Or, if you mean that your husband did not accurately present your position to R. Greenblatt, why not speak to him yourself and do so?

You also claim (ibid) that R. Greenblatt “doesn’t even remember writing that letter”. Are you implying that he never wrote it, even though it is entirely in his handwriting? Did you ask him to sign a disclaimer on our “forgery”? On the other hand, if you do acknowledge it as authentic, then what difference does it make if Rav Greenblatt “does not even remember” a letter he wrote, over 10 years after it was written?

We are baffled by your intention in that statement.

In your previous letter to the Bais Din, dated March 5, 2013, you wrote: “they (the Baltimore Bais Din) have especially attacked my mother by issuing a siruv against her when they knew that my father had signed an arbitration agreement to abide by the decision of the majority of three arbitrators”.

Your father responded by providing that siruv, and the arbitration agreement, showing that the siruv was issued six months before the arbitration agreement (documents available Who Went To Court and Who To Beis Din ).

To this you respond in your letter (par 5): “the Baltimore Bais Din has written so many false siruvs and letters… it is just a matter of looking at the correct ones to make the dates coincide”.

If you can “make the dates coincide”, why not do so and prove your innocence? How can a siruv be “false” because of an arbitration agreement, if that agreement did not exist at the time of the siruv? And what does it mean the siruv is “false”? The siruv simply states that your mother refused to participate in a Din Torah. Is it your position that your mother agrees to come to Din Torah? If so, let her put that in writing to the Bais Din and all issues will be resolved.

This is all that we are trying to accomplish for years.

Also, your insinuation that had there been a binding arbitration agreement, albeit court ordered, that would invalidate the siruv, is untrue. Your father asked for a Din Torah. Your mother issued a summons on him, thereby forcing him to adjudicate in Arkaos, either by means of one judge or a panel of three arbitrators. Why your father chose the latter course of Arkaos is explained in the letter of his attorney. It does not change the fact that your mother forced him into this choice of Arkaos which is a very severe sin (see Choshen Mishpat 26:1) as explained in the siruv.

By the way, you call the Baltimore Bais Din authors of “false” letters. Do you realize you are talking about people of the caliber of Rav Moshe Heinemann and Rav Yaakov Hopfer shlit”a, known worldwide for their gaon’us in Torah and unimpeachable integrity? And yet, without even presenting any facts or basis, you call such Gedolim liars?! Is that also your attitude toward the letter of the Gedolei Hador in Eretz Yisroel ? This letter specifies “Mrs. Ort and her family members.”We deeply regret having to speak so harshly, but your language and behavior leave no alternative. Please consider the shame you are bringing on yourselves and every mosad you are affiliated with, and submit an honest Din Torah K’daas Moshe V’Yisroel. Do not force Rav Greenblatt shlit”a to issue a siruv on you, now that the third hazmanah has been issued (above).

For the sake of Emes

For the sake of Shalom

For the sake of stopping this terrible chillul Hashem,

Please…

Sincerely,