“Out of the love of friends we are writing you a public letter”: This is how Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu opened his letter against Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, after two letters from early rabbis sent today (Thursday) in which claims were made mainly against the halakhic rulings of Rabbi Bracha on family purity And his meeting with representatives of the Reform movement.
“His Excellency allows himself time and time again to single-handedly rule and rule against the majority and the building of the sages of Israel, and this does great damage,” the rabbi of Safed argued against Rabbi Melamed: “When the vast majority of rabbis in Israel and around the world have always thought that it is forbidden to meet with them and give them legitimacy in these meetings.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu went on to address the issue of the outline of the Western Wall and said that, “Thus in the ruling of His Majesty to give the Reformers a place in the Western Wall and give them a Torah scroll there. In this, he may have a different opinion than others, but who is your name to publish an opinion in public against the majority of the building and the majority of the rabbis of Israel? “
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu’s letter to Rabbi Melamed Photo: None
Rabbi Eliyahu also referred to Rabbi Melamed’s ruling that the kosher outline of the Minister of Religious Affairs, Matan Kahana, is a good and correct outline: Speaking is the final version of the law according to which three rabbis can set rules in kosher has become the chief rabbinate of Israel. ”
“Now you have published support for the conversion law. Again, against the resolute opposition of the Chief Rabbis of Israel and the Chief Rabbinical Council of Israel which is elected by all rabbis of Israel and all heads of public. Against an absolute majority of rabbis “Haim Druckman shlita who announced that he would not support the law if it was against the opinion of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel,” wrote Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu.
“You must know that a law that does not pass with the consent of the Chief Rabbinate, the Chief Rabbis and an absolute majority of Israeli rabbis will be a law to tear the Jewish people apart, and will require genealogy books,” wrote a Safed rabbi. The public against the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and against the majority of the building and majority of the rabbis of Israel? The building of the arbitrators today and in previous generations and a teacher in this way has gone to many. ”
“Come back,” Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu finally exclaimed and signed: “Our desire for love and brotherhood is peace and evil. And especially among wise disciples. ‘