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.

Others claim that in our times we lack the expertise required to properly bake soft matzot and therefore it is advisable to avoid them (Minchat Asher quoting Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach).

It follows the halachic principles outlined by Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l, ensuring that movement occurs only after a brief delay.

Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, (Halichos Shlomo, Mo'adim, page 174), delved into the question of whether it is advisable to embark on vacations and trips. He emphasized that such trips are ...

Who were the skeptics, I asked? It named three high-profile Haredi rabbis — (Shmuel) Kamenetsky, (Chaim) Kanievsky and Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. But it’s untrue.

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 ...

I reached up to a shelf of Seforim at home and pulled out my copy of “Halichos Shlomo al HaTefilah”, a sefer assembled by the family and students of the great Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, z”tl.

The importance of vaccines is so significant and clear that the great medical halacha experts of the twentieth century, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg, permitted ...

Legend has it that Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, z’’l, had a special custom when it came to receiving mishloach manot (gifts) on Purim. He would taste from the items no matter what the ...

Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, zt”l (1910-95), may have been one of the most outstanding in this regard in the annals of the Jewish people. His ability to adapt arcane, seemingly esoteric Talmudic ...

Several other major recent halakhists, such as Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein agreed in principle that only a ...