Q. I, along with countless others in a Haredi Community, were able to be Mekadesh the Levana (moon) literally on the last night, on Friday night. It was a tremendous Pachad (fear), with many traveling out of state on Thursday night in hopes of seeing the Levana, and others saying it on Shabbos. May I from now on always say it at the earliest Zeman, even without a minyan or waiting for Motzoi Shabbos, to avoid a repeat of this near miss?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that indeed in places where the winter is severe and the prolonged cloudy skies are not uncommon during the winter, one should recite Kidush Levana, the earliest Halacha permits.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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