Rabbonim Letters

The site’s collection of letters from the rabbonim involved with the case over the years, transcribed in full. Each letter page links to the scanned original in the Evidence Archive .

Writs concerning Mrs. Ort

• KSAV SIRUV — summoning Mrs. Manya Ort to din Torah; Isru Chag Shavuos 5762. Signed by R. Yakov Hopfer, R. Simcha Bunim Shafrin, R. Mordechai Shuchatowitz. ( Ksiv siruv of the Baltimore Bais Din regarding Mrs. Manya Ort )
• Siruv from the Beis Yosef Beis Din ( Siruv of the Rabbinical Court of Yeshiva Beth Joseph regarding Mrs. Manya Ort )
• The Ikul — injunction against selling the Lakewood house; 2 Menachem Av 5768. ( Beis din ikul (restraining order) on the Lakewood house sale )
• Bais Din ruling on mesira — that aside from the issur of going to arkaos, the graver issur of mesira was committed; 5763. ( Baltimore Bais Din ruling on mesira in the Ort case )
• Siruv against Miriam Ort-Hirsch — 13 Shevat 5763. ( Siruv of the Baltimore Bais Din regarding Mrs. Chana Miriam Hirsch (née Ort) )

On arkaos

• Rav Nissim Karelitz on arkaos — whether one may rely on a psak from a rov who did not hear both sides. ( scan of the response )
• Rav Moshe Shternbuch — 10 Sivan 5769.

Letters of the Roshei Yeshiva and rabbonim

• R’ Dovid Feinstein — 18 Teves 5762 (January 2, 2002). ( Handwritten letter of Rabbi Dovid Feinstein )
• R’ Malkiel Kotler — scan only, no transcription. ( Rabbi Malkiel Kotler to Judge Arnold Goodman on the Ort case )
• R’ Tuvia Goldstein — 5762. ( Fax from Rabbi Tovia Goldstein )
• Rav Nota Greenblatt on the “secret heter” — Memphis. ( Rabbi Greenblatt’s letter denouncing the ‘secret heter’ for suing in civil court (9 Adar I, 5763) )
• Rav Nota Greenblatt, Memphis — second letter — ( Second letter of Rabbi Nota Greenblatt )
• Additional signatures: Feldman, Shechter, Perlow — scan only, no transcription. ( Joint rabbinical letter on the Broderick din Torah summons (Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5774) )

Letters by person concerned

The same letters, grouped by whom they concern, each linking to its full catalog record (with transcription notes and quality labels) in the Evidence Archive .

• Mrs. Manya Ort — ksav siruv, Baltimore Bais Din (2002) ; mesira ruling (2002) ; siruv, Yeshiva Beth Joseph ; ikul on the Lakewood house sale (2008) ; five-rabbonim letter on arkaos .
• Mrs. Chana Miriam Hirsch (née Ort) — siruv, Baltimore Bais Din (2003) .
• R’ Ira (Yitzchok) Adler — ksav siruv (2011) ; open letter to his friends and relatives . See The Adler Story .
• The Brodericks — Rav Greenblatt on the “secret heter” (2003) ; third hazmana (2013) ; joint rabbinical letter (2014) . See The Brodericks .
• General psak cited in the correspondence (Steinbergs, Gruskin) — five-rabbonim letter on arkaos ; Rav Dovid Feinstein ; Rav Nota Greenblatt ; Rav Greenblatt (2003) .