The Minister of Religions, Matan Kahana, came out today (Friday) in the defense of Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, against whom a number of leading rabbis in the national religious community published unusually sharp letters.
"We want to boycott those who have a different opinion," the minister said.
In recent months, rabbis have been leading an attack on Har Bracha and the author of the book "Pearls of Halacha", partly due to his media meetings with leaders of the Reform movement, but have taken the struggle a step further, calling not to trust his books and some of his halakhic rulings.
It should be noted that this is a very unusual move against a rabbi who is considered particularly prominent in religious Zionism - and was denounced by his colleagues.
Minister Matan Kahana said: "In recent days, we have all witnessed the humiliation of sages' students and the desecration of God who loses all restraint. A group that is not willing to accept any other opinion seeks to boycott those whose opinion is different. Copies and illuminates every house in the Torah, wins Mea Shearim-style peshkvils.
Beside him, rabbis with different opinions are denounced.
This is not a controversy for heaven's sake - this is a controversy for the sake of politics and therefore its end will not exist.
I call on the national-faith public that our Jewish identity be dear to him, that his beit midrash is that of the tradition of the generations in which the law is sharpened out of controversy for heaven's sake - to unite.
Together we will condemn the factions that have already destroyed the Jewish kingdom twice.
We will stand and act together, we will make repairs and there will be a heavenly favorite by us. "
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