Q. Dear Rov Shlit’a. I’m a member of a Bikur Cholim group and B’H I visit a number of the ill every week. I heard that when someone visits a sick person one should should avoid sitting at or near the bottom end of the bed is that true?
A. Aruch Hashulchan (335: 7) and others (See Bikur Cholim Kehilchoso) quote Zohar (Pinchas) that indeed one should avoid sitting at the bottom of the bed, since the Angel of Death could be found there.
However, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a pointed that this Zohar is not familiar or known at all and the common Minhag is not to be careful with this tradition.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit'a
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