- Q. Dear Rov, as I asked by email, we Be’H are about to do theVort (engagement) for our daughter. I heard that it should better not be done on the Seventh day of Shevat, that corresponds this year to this coming Sunday night (Feb 25 2026), when it was planned, is that correct?
A. On question 4316 we quoted indeed Sefer Chassidim (158 p. 162) that mentions that weddings should be avoided on the seventh day of the months of Elul, Shevat and Tamuz. He warns that it may cause the demise of one of the couple. Yet it is known that some great Chassidic Rabbis actually got married on that day. (See Nitei Gavriel – Bein Hametzarim 1: 5)
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that even the Sefer Chassidim mentions only celebrating a wedding and not just a Vort, that should be then permitted.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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