The conflict in Sadigura to a new high: After the court’s inquiries were not answered, Sadigura’s members, members of the Sadigura Institutions in Jerusalem, submitted a request to the court yesterday to appoint a receiver to protect the association’s assets and prevent kidnappers, following a series of takeover measures Friedman and his people illegally owned the association’s assets and money, according to them, as is clear from the application submitted to the court.
Among the allegations are the eighty followers in the petition: taking over the association and its assets illegally while excluding Sadigura followers from the buildings of the institutions in Jerusalem; Avoidance of payment to the kollel students who worked at the place while using the association’s funds without authority for non-purposes of the association, non-payment of loans to the bank and many other claims to which were attached many photographs and evidence.
According to the request, the receiver “will hold the assets and funds of the association in order to allow them to be used by all members of the community who wish to do so, in accordance with the situation he used until the outbreak of the conflict following the death of the late Rebbe.” Sadigura’s dramatic appeal to the court came after more than two weeks since the Bnei Brak court’s ruling, which was joined by the rabbis who ruled that the issue of Sadigura should be discussed only in Zabla, and the halakhic directive that if Rabbi Mashi Friedman’s men do not agree Will go to court.
This is not the first time the case has been heard in court. The Tishrei Hospital issued a restraining order prohibiting Rabbi Mashi and his men from making changes to the association, after the court, founded by the late Gran Karlitz, allowed the appeal to the courts and wrote Because “after Rabbi R. Mordechai Shalev” Yosef Friedman shlit “a and his men passed the restraining order issued by the court and promoted moves regarding the assets of the Association of Sadigura Hasidim Jerusalem, the court gave the plaintiffs permission to go wherever they could to prevent and delay the The actions of the defendants. “However, now, members of the association from Sadigura claim that the restraining order has been violated and demand the appointment of a receiver.
“The purpose of this request,” they write, “is to carry out a series of blatant and improper takeovers of the respondents and their statements, on the association’s assets and funds, emptying the association’s funds in the dark and illegally exploiting the respondents’ funds and private needs; The association and the exclusion of the petitioners and the Hasidic community; in refusing to convene meetings of the committee and refusing to report to the petitioners on the financial conduct of the association in particular in view of the discovery of financial irregularities in its bank accounts; Applicants have been relocated for months. “
Tad at the Sadigura Crossroads (Photo: courtesy of the photographer)
The petitioners quote the will of the late Rebbe of Sadigura in which he wrote: “The son of my local acting Rabbi Yitzchak Yehoshua Heshil Friedman shlita in the leadership force will also head all the institutions at each and every site, bearing the name ‘Sadigura’ or ‘Rozin Sadigura’ etc. Everything will be under his leadership and custody, including all matters of appointments. “
“Respondent 2”, it was alleged in the application, when referring to Rabbi Mashi Friedman, the eldest son of the Rebbe Zatzokal, “refused and still refuses to accept what is stated in the will, when his younger brother actually received the ‘eldest’ in all matters. To all the Hasidic institutions, including Jerusalem. ” They emphasize that “this struggle should not be decided in this proceeding, but is the cause and motive for the present dispute; the unwillingness of Respondent 2 to reconcile with the will of his father the late Rebbe, while creating a rift in the family and the whole Hasidism, Were carried out by respondent 2 while his father was still alive, then they were in the process of preparing the land for the attempted unlawful takeover of the association. “
It was further alleged in the application submitted to the court that they illegally attached signature rights to the association, and even hid all the documents and protocols from the association’s offices to the private home of ‘Respondent 3’, Simcha Margaliot, a follower of Rabbi Mashi. The requests of the other members of the association who are loyal to the Sadigura Chassidut and to the Rebbe’s will, to receive protocols – were not answered.
If that is not enough, it is detailed in the long document submitted to the court that Rabbi Mashi’s men hired Adv. Amiram Bogat as a private attorney, but paid him NIS 17,000 from the association’s money and without informing the committee; In addition, the association’s account withdrew large sums for private needs, salary payments and more, without reporting to the committee members as required by law. Photographs of the checks and additional proof were presented in the appendices attached to the application.
At the same time, it was alleged in the appeal to the court that the students of the kollel affiliated with Sadigura, stopped receiving the regular scholarship without a decision at the committee meeting, and claimed, “with a clear intention to harass anyone who does not support Friedman, who calls himself” Rebbe of Sadigura – Jerusalem ” . On the other hand, including another affiliated with Rabbi Mashi, began receiving money from the association’s account, and again, without reporting to the committee.
They also resent the fact that the association’s income has been significantly reduced due to the Admors, since the Stieblech rooms, which had a number of quorums that generated income for the association every day, have become Rabbi Mashi’s personal rooms, and only one quorum exists. “It should be added that Friedman took over the association’s institutions and set aside its assets for the use of its supporters only while closing its doors to the majority of the community. This is the order and birth of the request regarding the replacement of the locks in a bullying and unilateral manner.”
They also claim that members of the association or those on their behalf decided to stop paying the monthly loan repayment that the association took from Paji Bank, in the amount currently standing at about NIS 2 million, “in order to put pressure on the applicants.” It should be emphasized that the applicants guarantee the same loans and according to the applicants the cessation of payment came to put pressure.
Therefore, attorneys Yuri Nehushtan and Shirley Avner ask the court to “schedule an urgent hearing on this application and summon the parties to the proceedings for a hearing and decision on this material and urgent application,” and to appoint a receiver to prevent the continued use of the association’s assets and funds. However, it should be noted that the court does not have a requirement to determine to whom the assets belong, but to grant remedies that will prevent unilateral changes by the Rebbe Rabbi Mashi and his people.
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The law firm of Michal Rosenbaum, who represents the Jerusalem Sadigura party in the lawsuit in question, responded: “This is a request filed as part of a lawsuit filed by a number of association members. In the context of the lawsuit currently being conducted, a letter of defense was filed by his client, which speaks for itself and shows that all the plaintiffs’ claims are erroneous, unfounded and must be rejected. Our clients will respond to all the allegations arising from the request as part of their response to the court and we are confident that the court will reject the request. “
The Sadigura Jerusalem Holy Courtyard stated: “The statement of claim was received today, we will not be dragged into the shallow and defamatory discourse and we will not conduct proceedings that, according to Rabbi Nussbaum, should be adjudicated in the Derech Torah court. In the media. The response will be submitted to the court, by the lawyers. “Anyone who is sure of the validity of his arguments did not run to forward any claim to the media.”
Advocate Doron Langa, the association’s attorney general, responded: “The HM represents the association. Therefore, Laham does not intend to intervene in the dispute between two factions, which are probably in Hasidism, probably in the association and its board of directors. I received the request to appoint a receiver submitted by one of the parties. The association will oppose the request, both because of software and the way it was submitted. For the allegations that arise, please. “
“It seems that the request as submitted came to try and circumvent an agreement obtained by the MK as the association’s submitter and submitted to the court, and its purpose – to leave the status quo in the association until the disputes between the parties are clarified. The parties’ claims have not yet begun to be clear. “