Q. It would be very helpful for my fasting (during Tisha Beav) if I could drink a cup of diluted vegetable soup at the Seudat Hamafseketh (last meal) before the fasting begins, after eating the customary hard boiled egg. I usually drink a tea then as I know it is permitted, could I drink instead a cup of that soup?

A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that it is not permitted as it constitutes an additional food that is prohibited in that special separating meal.

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