Q. Shalom Rav. In our well populated shul, as they do in many others, they sell the Aliyos of Yom Tov to the highest bidder. One of the most expensive ones is the Aliya of the Ten Commandments since it is known that the one who gets it will be saved and granted Refuah from illness. This is l’a, an important issue in a friends case. He wants to hear Horav Miller’s opinion is that is true?

A. Indeed Medresh Rabba (Bamidbar 7) teaches that as the nation reached Har Sinai they were all healed from all sickness. Ashrei Haish (3: 66) quotes Horav Eliahuv zt’l that this is a most special day to be granted refuah to all and most unusual illness (See Piskei Teshuvos 494: 1).

Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it becomes even more powerful if the money donated is used for promoting shiurim and the learning of Torah in that shul.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a