Rabbi Zilberstein: Volunteers Can Play Music In Hospitals Even In The Nine Days
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, rabbi of the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood in Bnei Brak, was asked whether it is permissible to use musical instruments to cheer seriously ill patients during the Three Weeks and the Nine Days, the traditional Jewish mourning period leading up to Tisha B’Av. The ruling was published in detail in