Editor’s Note: The recent publication on Torahweb.org of a letter by Yeshiva University Rosh Yeshiva Rav Hershel Schachter, shlita, criticized the work of the International Beit Din and advised all not to rely on their rulings, and for any associated rabbanim to resign. The original was printed in Hebrew and is available here: http://torahweb.org/torah/docs/ibd-machaa.html. We present a translation here, as well as a response from representatives of the organization he is addressing. The response from the International Beit Din can be found here.
It is a tremendous chutzpah that these three rabbis joined this beit din. Questions of this most serious nature—permitting a woman to remarry without a divorce—were brought to Rav Yitzchak Elchanan, after him to Rav Chaim Ozer and in our time to Rav Moshe Feinstein, all of whom were recognized as the greatest of their generations. It is forbidden for average rabbis to involve themselves in these matters because whoever does not understand the nature of marriages and divorces cannot be involved with them. In our generation, we present these questions to the few Torah scholars who have specialized in these laws and apprenticed under greats, and who therefore have a tradition about where to be lenient and where strict.
Rav) Tzvi (Hershel) Schachter, Tammuz 5775
I also agree to this objection with full force:
(Rav) Gedaliah Dov Schwartz, 21 Tammuz 5775
It is superfluous to add that there is no ruling and no judge but nonsense of fools who have appointed themselves authorities:
(Rav) Nota Tzvi Greenblatt, Memphis, 22 Tammuz 5775
The words of the above giants are clear in law and in practice, and I also join in their objection:
(Rav) Avrohom Michael Union, 26 Tammuz 5775
I also join in objecting to this brazen breach:
(Rav) Menachem Mendel Senderovitz, 3 Av 5775
Ponovezh - leading by example?
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