R’ Efryim Dovid Gruskin: the documents

R’ EFRYIM DOVID GRUSKIN:

Since your sister-in-law Mrs. Manya Ort went to Arkaos Shel Akum in February 2000, you have been justifying her actions by claiming that she was “left penniless”, “starving”, etc.

Rabbi Gruskin: Please review the following documents:

1. Mrs. Ort‘s handwritten instructions to her banker in Switzerland to “fax $350,000 from my account… to my account in lsrael” (dated Jan 5, 2000).

2. Mrs. Ort‘s deposition acknowledging that “when I made that transfer of $350,000, $250,000 was in that lsrael acct”.

3. Letter from Smith-Barney verifying that in Dec 1999, Sarah Ort-Broderick helped herself to the money that R. Avrohom put in her name, in amount of $182,619.28.

4. Letter of Miriam Ort-Hirsch, wife of Eliezer Hirsch, doing the same thing in excess of $95,186.12 (dated Dec 3, 2001). Total: $877,805.40.

Rabbi Gruskin: Perhaps you can say that you were unaware that Mrs. Ort really had close to a million dollars In cash. Perhaps you were also unaware of the over 5 million dollars which Mrs. Ort subsequently acquired through Arkaos (documented on this website).

But now you do know.

You also do know that all the Gedolei HaDor in Eretz Yisroel have signed the attached letter “to bring the dispute to a Din Torah in Bais Din only”, and that similar letters have been issued by the American Gedolei HaDor, including Harabbanim HaGeonim Rav Dovid Feinstein, Rav Moshe Heinemann, Rav Nota Greenblatt, Rav Yaakov Hopfer shlit”a and Rav Tuvia Goldstein zt”l.

Rabbi Gruskin, as a former Rosh Yeshiva you surely realize that the prerequisite to

being a Ben Torah is to accept Da’as Torah. These are the Yechidei Segula of our generation whose words are followed by all bne’i Torah everywhere. ls it not a Chillul Hashem to claim that they were “fooled” or (c”v) “influenced”? If a Rosh Yeshiva can reject a unanimous psak din of our Gedolim, what be expected from his talmidim?

You also do know that the Rosh Yeshiva Harav Malkiel Kotler shlit”a issued a letter to the judge stating in part, “l also feel that this entire dispute could and should be resolved in a bais din, and I have let Mrs. Ort know that l feel this way” and that the Roshei Yeshiva, Harav Dovid Shustal and Harav Yisroel Neuman shlit”a took from their precious time to appear in the Ocean county courthouse, to make clear their position that this matter belongs in Bais Din only. These are our own Roshei Yeshiva in Lakewood, and the documents cannot be denied.

Will you now admit your mistake and call on Mrs. Ort to come to a beis din?

If yes – send your statement to emesvshalom.com. We will post it for all to see.

If not – isn’t that your admission that you were never unaware at all?