- Q. Dear Rabbi and friend, I just read on a Daas Torah news source, a very motivating article. It mentioned that Sigi Cohen, the mother of Eliya Cohen who was released from Hamas captivity on a recent Shabbos, spoke at a press conference on Sunday evening at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah.
She first spoke about her efforts over 505 days to bring her son and his fellow hostages home. “I asked Am Yisrael to stand together, to have mutual responsibility, and to be there for one another like brothers and sisters. And what I most asked for was an increase in tefillos and good deeds.”
“From Eliya’s side, we heard that every day, he recited the parshiyot for putting on tefillin and he recited Kiddush on Shabbos on a cup of water, strengthening himself and others. We heard about many nissim and hashgachah (Hashem’s Supervision) that Eliya and his friends experienced there.”
I’m just wondering, if a person finds himself in a similar situation when he can not make Kiddush on any acceptable drink, should he make Kiddush on water.
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that kidush can not be said on water.
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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