LETTER FROM RABBI YOEL SCHWARTZ

Category: GER/VENDYL JONES

Statement from HaRav Yoel Schwartz
Regarding R' David Katz
Released October 17, 2017

Translation:

With the Help of HaShem:

27 Tishrei, 5778 [October 17, 2017] To the Attention of the Public:

All that R. David Katz is doing using my name is incorrect, and in my opinion, what he is doing is against halacha.

Yoel Schwartz

[Rabbi Yoel Schwartz is an eminent, senior authority on Jewish Law in Israel. A graduate of Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak and Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem, he has been the senior lecturer at Yeshiva Dvar Yerushalayim in Jerusalem for decades. He is also one of the most published rabbis of the generation, having authored over 200 books on Judaism, including the foundational work on Noahide law, "The Noahide Commandments". He is one of the founding rabbis of Nachal Charedi, the Orthodox Jewish Brigade of the IDF, and a recipient of the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism.]