Following Rabbi Eliezer Melamed’s support for a reform prayer section at the Kosel, Chareidi store owners have begun to boycott Rabbi Melamed’s sefarim “Peninei Halacha”, which have been sold in many locations.
According to reports in Bchadrei Charedim, store owners have begun packaging up the Peninei Halacha series books in order to return them to the publisher. One store owner told Bchadrei that “All of the sefarim of the ‘Reform Rabbi’, Eliezer Melamed are being packed up from Chareidi stores and sent back. That’s it. It’s the end of an era. We won’t sell his books any longer. Books of Reform Rabbis won’t make their way into the Chareidi communities.”
The umbrella organization of the Reform Movement in Israel which calls itself the “Traditional Movement, celebrated Rabbi Melamed’s support. “Rabbi Melamed is leading a brave position with everything connected to building a dialogue between the different streams of Judaism. This is something that we value greatly, especially after Tisha B’Av. Now is the time to tear down the great fences that divide us, to build discourse, and to find solutions together so that we may all be able to live here one alongside the other in serenity.”
Rabbi Melamed, who is a Rabbi in the Religious Zionist community, published an Op-Ed in the newspaper “Basheva” where he said that Reform and Conservative Jews should be allowed to pray in the Ezras Yisrael section of the Kosel and that the Kotel Rabbi should make sure that all of their needs and requirements are met, including having a sefer Torah made available to them. “Should there be a suspicion that other Jews will take over the Ezras Yisrael at the time when these communities want to daven there, the Rav of the Kosel will need to make them move to other locations, so as to allow for all Jews who wish to pray there feel like they are the beloved children of Hashem.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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9 Responses
Too bad. Although one can barely find them in US seforim stores, Rav Melamed’s Peninei Halacha series is incomparable in the clarity of its writing and reasonableness in its psak.
I have eight volumes.
If you find it in a store, buy a volume and see for yourself.
Good to know that cancel culture has spread to the Chareidi Tzibur. At least they are not doing “book burnings”, at least for now.
Who is despicabler & more deserving of being boycotted:- Ben & Jerry or Eliezer Melamed?
Typical anti-halachic stupidity from RZ “rabbis”.
The store owner is guilty of hotzaat she ra. Maybe his store should be boycotted.
“if one whispers into your ear.. do not fight with the evil doers; only one whose heart is leaning towards it says such”
If one opposes the protest of the allowance of evil, no matter how learned the person is, they are just as tolerant of evil as the rabbi who is in favor of accommodating apikorsus.
This is what we want the kosel for? To accommodate apikorsus right in front of the beis hamikdosh? Would this rabbi champion the cause of the tzedukim to break halacha in the beis hamikdash – as they did – on the same grounds? Actually, the tzedukim believed at least in Hashem and Torah she b’chsav, these kofrim don’t believe in anything at all except some form of “god” of their own imagination
Forgot to mention the source of the above quote – it’s megilah 6b
If only all these kanoim were as quick to ban Walder YM”S books. Always sad to see a pedophile and molester/rotzeach better defended than a Gadol B’Ysroel.
Please refer to the rabbi as Rabbi in your heading. Kvod HaTorah.