“I KNOW R’ BINYOMIN FROM THE DAY HE CAME TO LAKEWOOD. HE IS A TZADDIK GAMUR.” RAV YERUCHEM OLSHIN, SHLIT”A
This campaign is being run by the family of the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yeruchem, shlit”a. Funds are NOT going towards legal fees, it is strictly to help this yungerman learn b’menucha.
“ALL YOU SEE IS SIMCHAS HACHAIM, YOU’LL SEE NOTHING OF HIS STRUGGLES.”
The public and shocking story of a Lakewood Yungerman’s (R’ Binyomin Kubani) false accusation had the tzibur rallying behind a giant in Torah and hasmada in his time of need.
With his prison release B”H secured, let us rally behind him once more — this time to free him from financial struggles.
Let us join together and help a tremendous masmid and true ben torah to be able to learn bemenucha.
SUPPORT LIMUD HATORAH MITOCH HADECHAK.
📞 24-HR Donation Hotline: (201) 771-9900
✉️ Make checks out to: Rachem NA c/o Rav Yeruchem Olshin shlit”a 975 Forest Ave. Apt 1A Lakewood, NJ 08701
Are you rejecting the testimony of the victim because he is a Gentile?
Gentile Testimony is Not Admissible
🔹 Talmud Bavli, Sanhedrin 57a
“Only a Jew is a ‘man’ (adam); a Gentile is not a man.”
Implication: Legal and moral obligations only apply between Jews — a Gentile is outside the framework. Their word holds no legal weight in most rabbinic courts.
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🔹 Talmud Bavli, Bava Kamma 113a
“It is permitted to deceive a Gentile.”
And specifically:
“The testimony of a Gentile is not accepted in a Jewish court.”
This forms the basis of exclusion from legal standing. Even if the Gentile speaks truth, his word is dismissed by virtue of being a Gentile.
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🔹 Tosefta, Sanhedrin 13:2
“A Gentile does not inherit, and his testimony is invalid.”
A simple, direct ruling: Gentiles have no valid voice in inheritance law or testimony. A rabbi could declare a Gentile’s account of a crime completely irrelevant, even if he witnessed it.
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👩 2. Women’s Testimony is Generally Invalid
🔹 Talmud Bavli, Rosh Hashanah 22a
“Any testimony that a woman is not eligible to bring, such as in monetary cases, a slave also is not eligible.”
Women are placed in the same category as slaves in terms of legal trustworthiness.
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🔹 Talmud Bavli, Kiddushin 80b
“Women are light-minded and not qualified to bear witness.”
Bluntly put: the rabbis believed women to be emotionally or mentally unreliable, and therefore not qualified to testify in legal cases.
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🔹 Talmud Bavli, Shevuot 30a
“The oath of testimony does not apply to women.”
In other words: women are categorically disqualified from bearing formal witness, even under oath, in most rabbinic legal settings.