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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan (why not Chanowitz - she has the money) welcome second daughter
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| Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan with their two daughters, baby August and Max. |
The Facebook founder and his wife made the announcement through a post on Zuckerberg’s Facebook page Monday in which they sounded optimistic about the world’s future.
“When your sister was born, we wrote a letter about the world we hoped she and now you will grow up in — a world with better education, fewer diseases, stronger communities, and greater equality,” Zuckerberg and Chan wrote. “We wrote that with all the advances in science and technology, your generation should live dramatically better lives than ours, and we have a responsibility to do our part to make that happen. Even though headlines often focus on what’s wrong, we still believe these positive trends will win out. We’re optimists about your generation and the future.”
They also pointed out the importance of childhood.
“Childhood is magical. You only get to be a child once, so don’t spend it worrying too much about the future,” they wrote.
The couple had their first child, Max, in November 2015. Before her birth, Zuckerberg wrote about Chan’s struggles with pregnancy, including her three miscarriages.
Zuckerberg recently spoke at Harvard’s commencement ceremony and cited the Mi Shebeirach prayer.
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Rav Shaul, do you know anything about the recent case in Baltimore when the Philadelphia Kamenetskys permitted a married woman (ayshes yish) to get remarried without a get claiming the first marriage was by mistake because the husband was mentally challenged (not true)? I heard she got remarried and then other rabbonim demanded that she should receive a get, which she eventually did. Can you elaborate on this case?
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ReplyDeleteAs everyone knows, the storm resulting from the phony heter to Tamar Epstein has been going on for a while. R Shalom Kaminetsky's campaign to manipulate Rav Greenblatt to declare the marriage invalid worked only for a while. However a wide range of major rabbis - including Rav Chaim Kanievsky - have condemned this heter and declared Tamar as still being married to her first husband and thus committing adultery with her 2nd husband. It has clearly been publicly declared by these rabbis that persuading a psychiatrist to write an invalid report - is a major danger to the Orthodox community and the institution of marriage.
The question is why the issue has not been settled with a retraction of the heter by Rabbi Greenblatt and a rejection of the heter by Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky and his son? Why is the issue dragging on? Why isn't an ultimatum being given to the above - to either comply or be publicly denounced?
The answer unfortunately is not a pretty one. Because if an ultimatum was delivered to the above rabbis - there is a good possibility that they would not comply. After all they have "Daas Torah" or as Rav Greenblatt says "I followed the Shulchan Aruch" and it doesn't matter to him whether the facts are true or not. He views the heter as being independent of how it was obtained and that the only thing that matters is that he issued a psak that Tamar can remarry. Similarly Rav Kaminetsky sees no reason to condemn the heter because it was issued by a "bar samcha" (Rav Greenblatt) and so it doesn't matter if the basis is a pack of lies. In short neither cares whether the heter was obtained through falsely proclaiming that Aharon Friedman suffers from extreme incurable mental illness that disqualifies him from ever being able to marry.
However the real answer why there is no ultimatum is because we have a serious problem here of codependency. What is ultimately preventing the resolution - and the reason that the Moetzes Gedolei Torah will never get involved - is the issue of the priority of our rabbinic leaders. While Torah and halacha are truly important, there is a greater concern for these rabbis. They view that the system itself is in danger if major gedolim are declared to be in open rebellion against the Torah. These rabbis will never do anything that is perceived as an attack on gedolim. Thy believe that faith in gedolim (and Daas Torah) is more important to preserve than faith in G-d and Torah! Or rather that faith in G-d and Torah must be through faith in the gedolim.
Unfortunately, by publicly declaring that the heter is false and that a major breach in Torah has occurred - they can't conceal from the public that the agents of this breach are in fact gedolim. The longer they hesitate the greater is the loss of faith in gedolim and the greater the cynicism is amongst the masses - including the yeshivos and seminaries.
In short, since they have gone public with the existence of a major breach - they can not avoid following that to its logical conclusion. But they lack nerve and don't want to be perceived as the ones who destroyed the public status of revered gedolim - Rav Greenblatt and Rav Kaminetsky.
Consequently there is great pressure to try and save the reputation of these gedolim by putting pressure on Aharon Friedman. It is widely viewed by these rabbis that almost all goals will be accomplished if he is sacrificed by forcing him to give a get and receive nothing in return.
Let me make it absolutely clear. Aharon Friedman will never back down. He will not sacrifice his reputation or his relationship with his daughter in order to allow Rav Kaminetsky and Rav Greenblatt to save face and not be held accountable for their sins. Aharon Friedman is not going to be the scapegoat that allows the rabbis to avoid the horrible task of destroying the reputation and legacy of Rav Kaminetsky and Rav Greenblatt - if they won't back down and condemn the phony heter.
Kaminetsky-Greenblatt Heter: Summary: Does a gadol have to give permission to protest against Rav Shmuel Kaminetky's heter
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Regarding my posts about the terrible perversion of Torah and halacha that Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky has engineered with his production of the Kaminetsky-Greenblatt Heter - how could I publicize this matter without a psak from gedolim (i.e. Daas Torah) that it was permitted and also being told explicitly what kind of publicity should be done?
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1) Rav Sternbuch in his letters regarding this matter has made it clear that we are required to publicize and protest this perversion where a woman was allowed to remarry without first receiving a Get. He does not mention anything about remaining quiet unless you personally receive a psak to protest.
November 2015 letter
November 2015 parsha sheet
January 2016 letter
2) However even without Rav Sternbuch's explicit statement as well as the many public letters of major rabbis attacking this heter - there is no halachic source which requires a person to ask a person viewed as a gadol or even ask a rabbi. Obviously if the determination that something wrong has been done comes from a single individual it is a good idea to confirm with a competent rabbi that his evaluation is correct. But in the case of this "heter" there are many strong letters of condemnation from major rabbis and there are no dissenting voice that the heter is valid - that is simply not an issue. The consensus is that Tamar is an eishis ish who is living with a man who is not her husband.
phony seruv against Aharon Friedman by R Shmuel Kaminetsky
R Herschel Schachter:Beat Aharon Friedman with baseball bat - rely on authority of R Kaminetsky
R Shalom Kaminetsky asking for heter in name of his father
R Shalom Kaminetsky asking for heter and Rav Greenblatt's reply
Summary of the facts regarding the Heter
Rav Herschel Schacter: Mekach ta'os - making a farce of the halacha
Rav Greenblatt states he did not check facts but relied on what R Sholom Kaminetsky told him
Rav Shmuel Feurst revealed as signer on heter
How Tamar destroyed her marriage with the assistance of the Kaminetskys
Wohlmark gang false seruv and Epstein lawyer Goldfein
Therapists that met with Aharon Feldman - deny discussing him with others
R Shmuel Kaminetsky to Rav Weiss - agrees to psak of Rav Dovid Feinstein
Who should be honored with Sandek for the mamzer?
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Tamar's diary clearly showing Aharon has no mental illness
Tamar's own words refute psychiatric claims of mental illness
psychologist says the psychiatrist report used is invalid
lawyer in family law : even if psychiatric report was accurate - the conclusion of mekach ta'us are not
Dr. Baruch Shulem - illegal and invalid to write report about someone therapist didn't meet
Pamphlet with most of the protest letters
Rav Gestetner English translation
Baltimore Beis Din first letter with Israeli gedolim agreement
ReplyDeleteR Shalom Kaminetsky's letter asking for the heter and Rav Nota Greenblatt's teshuva giving the heter
Baltimore Beis Din revised letter Nov 2015
Baltimore beis din apologizes to Aharon Friedman + Rav Reuven Feinstein and Rav Miller
Rav Aharon Feldman English translation of Rav Feldman's letter
Rav Aharon Feldman Only talmidei chachomim can decide this issue
Letter to Rav Aharon Feldman
Rav Malinowitz criticzing Rav Feldman for indicating this a macholes haposkim
Rav Landesman
Open letter to Rav Aharon Schechter regarding his attempt to save Rav Kaminetsky
Rav Shmuel Auerbach
Rav A C Sherman
Rav Avraham Yehoshua Solveitchik can not learn by Rav Kaminetsky
Open letter to the Moetzes of the Aguda
Washington area rabbis shun Aharon Friedman with feminist justification
Rav Herschel Schacter recording - heter no good
Rav Sternbuch letter November
Rav Sternbuch parasha sheet
Rav Sternbuch letter
Rav Sternbuch criticized by R Brodsky for calling for protests
Assertion that layman can't criticize crimes of rabbis
Rav Pinchus Rabinowitz
Hisachdus HaRabbonim of USA and Canada
Hisachdus letter posuling Rav Greenblatt
Rav Shlomo Miller Rav Wachtfoget et al
Refutation of support of heter from Yevamos
Rav Chaim Kanievsky and other Israeli gedolim
Eidah Chareidis
Rav Rominek's teshuva
Rav Feivel Cohen and Rav Shlomo Miller
R Sholom letter saying he and his father accept Rav Dovid Feinstein's psak
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Rav Shlomo Miller - Rav Greenblatt is referred to as "rav"
Rav Sternbuch criticized by R Brodsky for calling for protests by the masses
Hisachdus letter posuling Rav Greenblatt
Rav Avraham Yehoshua Solveitchik can not learn by Rav Kaminetsky
3) An additional question is whether a gadol is different and that a gadol can never be publicly condemned.
Rav Moshe Feinstein says it is permitted to publicly disagree with a gadol even as big as the Chazon Ish - and even in his community
Diasgreeing with the Chazon Ish in Bnei Brak
From one of the letters (2:133) of the Chazon Ish it is clear that he permits criticizing gadolim because they are influential - but not people who no one pays attention to.
Criticizing Gedolim
Mo'd Koton (17a) is clear that one can publicize the misdeeds of gedolim. We in fact pasken like this gemora.
TAMAR EPSTEIN'S HETER:
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http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2016/07/kaminetsky-greenblatt-heter-does-gadol.html
http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2017/08/do-gedolei-haposquim-agree-with-rav.html
Did Tamar Epstein actually give birth to a Mamzer? I love the position of Aharon Feldman of Ner Yisroel. About 15-something years ago they had a case of a woman whose father was a Native American / African American and the mother was questionably divorced (or not divorced at all). Ner Yisroel married her off to a Russian guy from Chicago who was a student at Ner Yisroel at the time (I'll just hint at his name: A.T.). All yeshiva and town rabbis were there (I think they also had Aaron Schechter from Chaim Berlin) -- "to prove that the marriage was kosher!" (At least rabbinically :)))
I surely remember the wedding of Avraham Turetsky! We danced with a frisky shaman who was asking about those strange long white fringes that Jewish men around him wore: Did they use them as he used his beads and feathers to talk to his tribal spirits? An old baltimorean rov next to me finally grumbled: 'er hot a katznkopf'! The wedding of the millennium...
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