Q. Kvod Harav. One that is permitted to take his necessary pills in Tisha Beav before he goes to bed. In a regular year he takes them before the Taanis begins. What should he do this year. He usually avoids taking them on Shabbat and waits until Motze Shabbat. So this year what is better, taking them on Shabbat or on Tisha Beav Motze Shabbat?
A. One may argue that it is better to delay an act that may be prohibited as much as possible and take the pills after the end of Shabbos on Tisha Beav.
There is an additional possibility of taking the pills on this particular occasion after the Shekia during Bein Hashmosos, a time of doubt whether it belongs to Shabbos or Tisha Beav.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is better to take them during Shabbos. Horav Yaakov Hirschman Shlit’a is similar.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a.