[Avodah] HaRav Yosef Ber Soloveitchik on Saying Hallel on Yom Ha'atzma'ut

[Micha Berger]

Someone asked me off-list...

Given that RYBS, wearing his head of the RCA halakhah committee hat,
wrote a teshuvah on the subject, how is there room to debate what his
position was?

Repeating the quote from RSCarmy's article (already quoted here by RYL
at the top of v27n104:
    Hallel on Yom haAtzmaut

    As Chairman of the RCA Halakha Commission, the Rav, in 1953 penned
    a responsum regarding the reading of Hallel on Yom haAtzmaut. He
    endorsed reading the mizmorei Tehillim that comprise Hallel if the
    community wanted to on the morning of Yom haAtzmaut. He strictly
    prohibited reciting a berakha on the Hallel. He also expressed
    reservations about reading these chapters at night, but did not
    advocate risking controversy over this practice. Subsequently, in
    several shiurim, he reiterated his objection to the berakha. At YU
    he was observed participating in minyanim that recited Hallel.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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