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RABBI CHYIM SH. ABRAHAM ‫ד”סב‬

95 LORIMER ST.
BROOKLYN, NY 11206
(718) 388-4411

Dear Rabbi Moshe Green

It has come to my attention that you have written a disparaging letter in English to a
Supreme Court Judge, concerning my revered father. In your letter, you declare that any
Get written at my father’s Bais Din has questionable validity and is unacceptable since
such a Get will cause a woman to retain her married status, and any future offspring from
a new marriage will be considered mamzeirim (bastards). It is well known that your
statements were made on behalf of Mrs Oberlander; a recalcitrant, slanderous thief, and
vicious informer, in order to continue baseless lies that she is an Agunah (chained
woman).
In the name of Justice, Righteousness, and our holy Torah, I demand a thorough
response from you to the following sins which you have committed:
1) Shaming and slandering my father First and foremost, I protest the humiliation of
my revered father “Chief Justice and Grand Rabbi of the Bais Din Kedushas Levi. My
father has been a Rabbi for many years involved in community affairs with honesty and
earnesty and without seeking honor and glory from his sacred work. He has many years
of experience in arranging for Gittin, and has done so with the strictest standards of piety
and “Fear of Hashem”, and also received commendations from great Rabbis. I’m greatful
that no Halachic calamities has ever arisen from any of his Gittin. I’m very upset and
disturbed at your statements and slander which makes my father appear like an
ignoramus in the Get process.
It is well known in our Torah, that a slanderer who spreads lies about another person can
“lose his portion in the next world” as well as to descend in Gehinnom (hell).Our sages
state that he who embarrases a Rabbi is to be “ex-communicated until he appeases
him”.

Your attempts to minimize your statements by making such remarks as: “ I never said the
Get is invalid, but rather stated that I will not officiate at a marriage of a woman who was
divorced by Rabbi Abraham”,is ridiculous and very sneaky. Your remarks are no different
than a Rabbi who states that he won’t eat meat at a certain individual’s home. Even if the
Rabbi does not declare his meat unkosher, the very fact that he declared that he wont eat
at his home is tantamount testimony that his meat is unkosher!

2)Shaming and degrading a Bais Din How does a person like yourself degrade and
humiliate a Bais Din and spread false rumors without substantial evidence to back your
claims! According to Halacha(Jewish law),every Bais Din is presumed to be kosher and
valid unless proof is provided to the contrary.(my father should be treated no differently
than the infamous Moshe Finkel whom you gave the benefit of the doubt years before the
truth was revealed that he sold non-kosher meats to the Jewish public!!) My father has
officiated many Gittin in the past with many children born to remarriage of these
women. The rumors and lies that you are spreading is uncessarily causing a “LAAZ ON
THE GET”,which we know that the revered Rabeinu Tam has issued a strong
condemnation and ex-communication on any individual who dares to spread baseless lies
on any GET.

3)Shaming of the innocent and pure In the name of the innocent children begotten
from a marriage after a GET was issued from the above Bais Din, I protest and demand
an explanation as to how you falsely raise a doubt of legitimacy of these children as to
possibly render them “MAMZEIRIM” with insufficient proof and with plenty of malice!
Once again the Torah warns against such behavior and warns of the impending
punishment.

4)condemning the righteous and justifying the wicked I,m dumbfounded how is it
that for many years you remained silent about the Gittin officiated by the Bais Din of
Rabbi Landesman, where real questionable Gittin are being executed on a daily basis. It
is well known that Rabbi Moshe from Satmar had issued a letter invalidating Rabbi
Landesman’s Gittin because of his involvement with Rabbi Wolmark in having men
“roughed up” in order to extract a Get from them. These type of Gittin are invalid
because they were obtained under coercion and duress, yet you remained silent to that
Bais Din’s actions!! It is precisely for this very reason why my father undertook to
officiate Gittin after seeing such blatant Rabbinic corruption in the Get process!

5)Helping out a Sinner Your letter appears to be addressed to your students at large. Do
you really believe that you could fool Hashem? (Master Of The Universe) What Rabbi
renders a Halachic decision in English? Everyone knows that your letter was written
specifically for the Supreme Court Judge presiding on the Oberlander-Rappaport Divorce
case. You had hoped that the Judge will take heed to your letter and render the Get that
Mr Rappaport deposited in my father’s Bais Din invalid; but Hashem had other plans.
Mrs Rappaport’s evil plan was to pretend she is an “AGUNAH” so that the New York
Get Law should award her all of the marital assets! There are rumors that say that you
received a large “payoff” to produce this letter. How shameful can a Rabbi like you stoop
to such behavior! It is a disgrace to the Torah that a Rabbi would aid a woman in
violating the Torah’s commandment against arbitrating and litigating a fellow Jew in the
Civil Courts. Mrs Oberlander-Rappaport has even tried to have her husband arrested and
has attempted to forcibly extricate a Get in the Supreme Court which is obviously an
invalid Get! (attached herein see letter from a Bais Din Shaar Hamishpot strongly
condemning the actions of Mrs Rappaport and that of her parents)

It is therefore with great pain and anguish that I seek to hear from you why you have not
protested such a woman’s actions but instead lent her support to continue in her vicious
and wicked ways. How is it that you do not fear what the great sage “RAMA” stated in
(Choshen Mishpot 26-1) “that we excommunicate and condemn anyone that assists a
person who litigates in the Civil Courts prior to the Jewish Courts!” Please don’t
pretend to not know of this Halacha, after Rabbi Avrohom Gestetner issued you a letter
on the month of Shvat 5766 clearly explaining to you the details of this case and the
Halachic ramifications,and you persisted to ignore the warnings issued to you. If you feel
that I or Rabbi Gestetner have erred in Halacha, then please send us written proof to
support your actions. You have an obligation to refute or to shut up. It is no wonder why
in our generation the people have lost respect for Rabbis! Woe to us that we have stooped
so low!

It is my sincerest hope that for the sake of honoring the Torah, you will reply to this letter
soon, for if I do not receive a reply I will be left with no choice but to publicize this letter
to the public so that my revered father will be vindicated from such false accusations.

Signed on the 8th day of Teves 5768

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Chaim Shlomo Abraham