The following is a loose translation of an article (below is the original in Hebrew) by Menachem Rehat that was published in the Hebrew weekly, Matzav Ha'Ruach, this past week
The call to boycott the enlightening sefarim of the respected posek Rabbi Eliezer Melamed 'Pearls of Halacha', which adorn the bookcase in every national religious home, continues to destroy the Zionist-religious camp.
This divisive virus continues to wreak havoc on the public, as if a self-destructive mechanism had been implanted, all this on the basis of extremists and "fine'shemekers"
This time the arrows were pointed at Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, the rabbi of Har Bracha and Rosh Yeshiva, a Talmud Chacham and a "Yirei Shmayim" who authored a series of enlightening sefarim titled 'Pearls of Halacha', a person who is an "Ish Tamim" a Tzaddik and straightforward man, who is "tocho ke'baro"
Why the boycott?