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Beis Din Ohev Tzedaka Mishpat a free halakhic adjudication service to the haredi Jewish community in the metropolitan New York area

בית דין אוהב צדקה משפט

Ohev Tzedaka Mishpat Beis Din under the Psak Halacha of R.Elyishav,litigants from all over the world can have completely free Din Torah cases,via Zoom video conference,with our Dayanim in Eretz Yisroel.For litigation that is preferred in person,our Beis Din serves the New York/New Jersey area.

Overview

OhevTzedakaMishpatBeisDin is a rabbinic court docket that adjudicates civil disputes between Jewish litigants who agree to be certain by way of Orthodox Jewish regulation as laid down in Shulhan Arukh Hoshen Mishpat and its glossators. Marital transactions such as marriage, divorce, yibbum and halitzah might also additionally be finished in our court.  Our courtroom consists of a panel of three dayyanim (justices) drawn from a pool of over 20 rabbanim who are Talmudic students by way of occupation and specialists in Jewish law.   In accordance with halakhah (Jewish law)  and in order to hold the integrity of halakhic jurisprudence, our beth din offers all its offerings actually free of charge. Moreover, our beth din will now not be given any payment, donation or present from all and sundry using our services.   Our beth din was once centered in order to tackle the abuses and inefficiencies of most different foremost bate dinim, such as the without end drawn-out litigation manner designed to take advantage of and maximize a income from litigants. Furthermore, we are the solely beth din who entirely comply with the rule that hanotel sekhar ladun dinav betelim: whoever takes recompense to adjudicate, his judgements are null.   

How It Works

           For civil disputes, the procedure works as follows: 

 

 

  1. We get hold of a grievance through fax, cellphone or web.

  2. We immediately send out a summons through everyday  USPS mail to the defendant/respondent, ordering them to appear before beth din for litigation within three weeks of our receipt of the complaint.

  3. If the date is inconvenient for the respondent,  may additionally contact us to arrange an earlier date, but may not postpone the litigation date beyond the originally appointed date. If respondent arranges an earlier litigation date, we will notify the plaintiff, who then must show up on the until now date in order for the case to proceed.

  4. Both events ought to show up earlier than us in character in order for litigation to proceed on the appointed litigation date. Power of attorney is no longer an acceptable alternative to the presence of the disputants, though legal and/or lay assistance may accompany the disputants at our court proceedings. If plaintiff is absent, the case is automatically dismissed. If respondent is absent, our beth din will immediately issue a siruv (a document declaring that the respondent is refusing to submit to din torah) and in most cases we will also excommunicate the respondent for being in contempt of court, as specified in halakha. Additionally, if there is a valid arbitration agreement between the parties, the Beth Din may also render a default judgment.

  5. In order for the rabbinic choice of our courtroom to lift felony weight, each events will be requested to signal an arbitration consent document, BEFORE any debate about the case commences.

  6. After listening to both parties our beth din will debate the merits of the case in private session and probe rabbinic statutory (shulhan arukh) and case law (she'eloth uteshuvoth) relevance to the case if applicable. All supporting documents to a case must be presented at the time of litigation. We do not accept such evidence before the litigation date and evidence submitted late may prejudice the outcome of the case.

  7. A verdict will be issued inside days and mailed or faxed to both parties.

 

 

NOTE: A siruv halakhically lets in the plaintiff to are seeking any shape of remedy, such as unilateral motion and/or suing in a secular court.  

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