Shlomo Miller

Shlomo Eliyahu Miller is a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages).[1][2] He is a Rosh Kollel (dean) and co-founder of the Kollel Avreichim Institute for Advanced Talmud Study,[3] a haredi post-yeshiva educational institution in Toronto and head of its Beis Din (Rabbinical court). He is the foremost Litvish Haredi Posek (decisor of Rabbinic law) in Toronto.

Rabbi Shlomo Miller

Miller is the head of the Beis Din of the Va'ad Harabonim of Lakewood (Association of Rabbis) of Lakewood, NJ and heads a Kollel there as well.[4] He is a close friend of Avraham Bromberg. Miller is a strong opponent of any weakening of the rule of Halacha (Rabbinic law).

Personal life

Rabbinic history

Miller learned in the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore and was a close talmid (student) of Rav Aaron Kotler.[5] He began deciding Halachic disputes after Rav Moshe Feinstein began referring halakhic disputes to him. Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv is said to have called Miller the posek of North America. He founded Kollel Toronto along with Rav Yaakov Hirschman in 1970.[6]

Works

She'eilos U'Teshuvos Ma'ayanei Shlomo, a compilation of his Teshuvos (Halakhic responsa), was published by his son in law, Avrohom Goldner.[7] Rav Mordche Kanner has written multiple works based on the rulings of Miller, including Shoshanas Yisroel on Hilchos Purim.[8]

Some major rulings and statements

Shabbos mode ovens

Miller was a signatory to the ruling forbidding changing the temperature of Shabbos Mode ovens on Yom Tov.[9]

Slifkin controversy

Miller wrote a letter voicing his support of the controversial ban of Natan Slifkin's books by a number of prominent rabbis.[10] His defense of the rabbis and the ban was itself controversial, as evidenced by the responses it generated.[11] Miller and Slifkin met in Toronto in December 2007. Slifkin reported that, despite their "strong disagreements", they had "a very pleasant conversation" in "a nice, polite atmosphere." Slifkin noted, however, that nothing was resolved.[12]

Techeiles debate

Miller investigated the claim that the sea snail Murex trunculus was the source of the biblical techeiles. In a letter on the subject, he wrote that he believes that there are several Talmudic proofs that the Murex is not the creature from which techeiles is produced, and that the evidence in support of the claim is insufficient to overcome these points.[13] Yisroel Barkin authored a comprehensive disputation of Rabbi Millers' letter.[14]

References
  1. "Six Gedolim Added To Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah Of Agudas Yisroel". TheYeshivaWorld.com. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  2. By: The “Hamodia Staff” (September 14, 2020). "Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah Call on Community to Achieve Improvements; New Chavrei HaMoetzes Welcomed". Hamodia. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  4. Rav Shlomo Miller to spend Shabbos in Lakewood Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  5. https://kollel.com/founders/
  6. https://kollel.com/history/
  7. https://kollel.com/libraries/
  8. https://www.israelbookshoppublications.com/store/pc/Sefer-Shoshanas-Yisrael-Purim-p1238.htm
  9. "UPDATE: Preventing Transgression: Gedolei HaPoskim Asur Pressing Buttons on 'Shabbos Mode Ovens' on Yom Tov". Yeshiva World News. 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  10. A letter of admonishment regarding N. Slifkin's opinions Archived 2008-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  11. See Archived 2009-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
  13. Miller, Shlomo. "מכתב הרב שלמה מילר" [Letter of Rabbi Shlomo Miller] (PDF). www.techeiles.org.
  14. Barkin, Yisroel. "תגובה להרב שלמה מילר מהרב ישראל בארקין" [Response to Rabbi Miller]. www.techeiles.org.
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