Amid what appears to be a growing number of price tag attacks, a petition is being published that includes the signatures of at least 100 rabbonim affiliated with the dati leumi community. In the petition they call the so-called price tag attacks a Chilul Hashem.
Interestingly, the petition also included some names of people who did not sign, including the late Dr. Baruch Goldstein and Rabbi Chaim Dov Levinson, a writer for Haaretz. Also listed on the petition is Rabbi David Binyamin of the Skuli Farm in Alon Moreh. The rabbi contacted Arutz-7, which published the petition, informing them he did not sign. He name was promptly removed.
Rabbi Binyamin was more than a bit perturbed that his name was affixed to the petition, calling the petition a mockery.
Some who oppose the petition feel most of the signatories are not leaders in the dati leumi community and therefore the petition is not representative of the Halachic leadership, just the opinion of those who signed the document.
The attached PDF contains the petition.
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“the petition is not representative of the Halachic leadership”
The leading Dati Leumi poskim, including Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, have been highly critical of the Price Tag “movement”.
No one can sign on something that is against the Torah. Making a mockery list does not change Torah.
What next a list of Sefarim that should be banned. Perhaps chapters of the Rambam need to go, the Tannach itself as well for its call for removing the enemies from the land of Israel.
who could say it is muttar to do such a thing? it’s a no-brainer