Q. Dear Friendly Rabino. Due to my sad medical circumstances I was hospitalized yesterday (Thursday) during Tu Bishvat (2025), and was unable to eat the fruits together with my family and friends and say the brochos and sing the songs including the Tefilah for a proper and great esrog for Sukot, as I usually do.
Can I eat the fruits and say and sing them now on this Shabbos, as I’m offering a great Kidush to thank Hashem for my very prompt Refuah?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that you can and should offer a kiddush to promptly thank Hashem and you can eat the fruits you missed.
Yet the Rov Shlit’a maintains that you should not recite the words of praying for great good fruits including this year esrog, since one should not recite on Shabbos prayers of need for other occasions even Yomim Tovim.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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