JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Tel Aviv District Rabbinical Court was asked to adjudicate in an acute dispute which broke out between divorced parents regarding the education of their daughter. The father, who had remained chareidi, demanded that his only daughter receive a chareidi education, while the mother, who had left religion and lived on a secular moshav, wished to register her daughter at the local secular school. The two had divorced over the ideological move of the mother but were now arguing over the future of their 6-year-old daughter.
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The father claimed that the mother had moved to a secular place and registered his daughter their in violation of the divorce agreement, while the mother said that since the daughter was in her custody and she had adopted a secular lifestyle and lived in a place without a chareidi school, the interests of her daughter are that they should stay in the moshav.
The mother said that “I have changed my lifestyle after a deep personal reflection. I chose my place of living and invested thought and many resources in creating a stable place for us. I hope the Beis Din will see the emotional needs of the girl and the importance of her healthy development.”
The Beis Din, comprised of rabbis Zvi Birnbaum, Naftali Heisler and Aryeh Uriel, said that “the main factor and only consideration in the decision is the good of the girl and not the good of the parents. This is based on tens of rulings by early and later poskim, as well as the rulings of the secular courts and supreme court.
“After investigating the mother’s request it appears that it stems from her own personal benefit and not that of her daughter. The mother moved her location without revealing to the father and registered her daughter to a secular kindergarten without receiving his authorization as required.”
Despite this, the court suggested a compromise: neither chareidi education nor secular education.
The dayanim wrote that “the court believes that a national-religious school would be a compromise between the lifestyles of the parents. These schools accept even non-religious children and do not force them to maintain a religious lifestyle in their homes. The school enriches the children in Jewish tradition and provides them with knowlege of their Jewish heritage. This education will allow the girl to visit the father and his chareidi children as well as the chareidi children of the mother from her former marriage. These arrangements are vital for the healthy emotional development of the girl.”
The court ordered the mother to register her daughter in a national-religious school.
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Something Solomon would have done
instead of losing the child completely at least she’s on a Jewish educational facility
Compromise…
not surprisingly, compromise is almost always the way to go
It seems the article was poorly translated. The middle of the article refers to a boy..(?)… ילד ?
A better , more biblically sound solution would have been to cut the child in half …
Very nice compromise.
No Chareidi Gan/Kindergarten or grade school will want a girl whose Mother is secular as they are scared of bad influences. OTOH, the chances of harm to the girl increase in a secular school. Im not sure that a school that neither parents want, and where the little girl will not see the values taught at school at either of her parents homes helps her. Poor kid.
Is the mother vaccinated?
At least we know now that according the Israeli court national religion is not religious, it’s in between religious and secular.
I personally know Rav צבי Birnbaumשליט”א for 42 years, and he is incredibly astute & wise & learned
Excellent decision by the Beit Din. The girl will get an excellent religious education.
the heroic efforts of the father serve to highlight how important it is to educate our heiliger children al pi our Mesorah. WE must always be the ones who determine our children’s chinuch-we must never bow to the board of Regents who, chas veshalom chas vechalilah!, may decide to allow the hate-filled lying {and mostly unemployed shnorring] haters of yaffed to have a say in our children’s chinuch (R”I)
The child’s Neshama is at stake. Someone should kidnap her and smuggle her into America and drop her of with Satmar like the “Ayfo Yossi” case of the early 60’s