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 ...

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.

Former Grand Court Dayan and son-in-law of the late Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, published a letter regarding the conversion controversy and the Nissim Committee ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rather, we say “Mi shegemalcha…” Last week we noted Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach’s view that when reciting this blessing a person should not say “kol tuv – every good,” implying that ...