When fathers face serious legal battles, entire families live through the consequences.
Several Yiddishe fathers are currently facing legal battles with potentially devastating consequences.
But behind the lawyers and court proceedings are wives and children trying to live with tremendous fear and uncertainty.
There is also another reality: the staggering cost of experienced legal representation.
These expenses have become more than the families can possibly carry themselves.
Read the Rabbinic letters and help
That is why Rabbanim who personally know these families have stepped forward with an urgent appeal.
Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes writes of the tremendous stress these families are experiencing, “especially on their children,” and calls upon Klal Yisroel to open their hearts and help.
The rabbinic appeals invoke the tremendous mitzvah of Pidyon Shvuyim and emphasize the importance of helping these fathers obtain the representation they desperately need.
Whatever happens inside the courtroom, there are families outside of it who need us right now.
Several families are carrying an enormous burden.
Let’s make sure they don’t carry it alone.