Monsey is a sanctuary city for everyone and anybody, no one really cares! The Neturei Karta live there in peace and quiet, and their children go to any yeshiva they wish. They shop in any store they feel like and they daven anywhere they want and no one says boo!
So is it any wonder that a character like Menachem Markowitz who refuses to give a get to his wife after 12 years of separation finds his new home with his live-in girlfriend in Monsey? Monsey is the quintessential home for get refusers and savages like NK!
In a dramatic development that has shaken the charedi Jewish communities in the United States and abroad, a man who allegedly married a second wife while refusing to grant his first wife a religious divorce (get) has fled the town of Monroe for Monsey, just ahead of being formally expelled from the community, according to a JFeed report.
The Satmar Rebbe made a second appearance at the community’s main study hall last night to address the situation. This follows his unprecedented 24-hour ultimatum to the man to resolve his marital status according to Jewish law.
In recent weeks, the Rebbe heard that the man had begun to pray regularly in the kollel headed by the Rebbe’s son-in-law, Shimon Zeev Meisels. the Rebbe called his son-in-law in recent days and ordered him to remove the husband from the study hall. The son-in-law tried to soften the Rebbe, who allowed him to try to convince the husband to grant a divorce through persuasion and dialogue.
After several conversations between the head of the kollel and the recalcitrant husband, he agreed to grant a divorce, but ultimately retracted due to stubborn reluctance. This led the Rebbe to stand in the central Beit Midrash in Kiryat Joel and for the first time publicly addressing the painful affair.
“Here in Kiryat Joel lives a man who married his second wife before he divorced his first wife, and his claim is that he has the permission of a hundred rabbis. I have learned that some of the rabbis have already retracted their signature after learning that the entire permit is based on false lies, some have retracted in writing and some orally even before he married his second wife,” the Rebbe said.
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