Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (RSZA): In order that our living in it should not seem like a burden עול since we are commanded about it, rather the opposite. We are happy and craving to settle our ...

Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Z”L had a very special custom. Shortly after a relative, friend or close student would move into a new home, he would ask to visit. Although he would only stay for a ...

When the son of a previous Gadol Hador, the son of the Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, passes away there is an added dimension of grief, as the Torah he grew up with also departs this world.

Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach added that we might permit a patient to choose a risky experimental treatment to potentially heal a very painful ailment, even if the condition is not terminal.

DIFFERENT RATIONALES are given for this universal ruling. Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach made a number of arguments. Firstly, he notes that untreated pain is likely to cause greater harm than any ...

Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Rabbi Aaron Soloveitchik, of blessed memory; and contemporary poskim like Rabbi Hershel Schachter, Rabbi Dovid Cohen and Rabbi J. David Bleich, consider “brain ...

From Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ztz”l to Rav Elyashiv zt”l, I loved to hear about each Gadol’s extraordinary kindness and wisdom. One Rabbi in particular that I was drawn to was Rav Yeshaya ...

Avigdor Nebenzahl, Yeushalayim BeModadeha Pesach, p. 114, citing R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach). It would seem that even according to this view, there is no problem with an Ashkenazi Jew eating from ...