Faith
Regarding the Direction of Beds
Question
Hello and blessings,
I would be glad to know in which direction a bed should be placed in the home. I have read in various places about different directions.. I am asking because my husband and I have still not succeeded in bringing children into the world for three and a half years.. We live in Jerusalem, and on our street there is a synagogue where they pray facing north...
Thank you for your response
Answer
Greetings,
According to our rabbis, the poskim, it is forbidden for a person, when his wife is with him, and when his wife is not with him it is proper to be careful, to sleep between east and west; rather, he should sleep between north and south, in a way that the head of the bed is in the north and the foot of it in the south.
However, according to our rabbis, the mekubalim, on the contrary, it is forbidden for a person to sleep between north and south, but rather between east and west, with the head of the bed to the east and the foot of it to the west.
As for practical halacha, one who wishes to follow the view of our rabbis, the poskim, and place his bed between north and south, may do so. And one who wishes to follow the view of our rabbis, the mekubalim, and place his bed between east and west, with his head to the east and his feet to the west, may do so.
In any case, there is one who wrote that a person should always act according to one side only, either east and west or north and south, because in this way he fulfills at least one opinion; but if sometimes he does this and sometimes he does that, he is contradicting himself.
Good news soon,
Hillel Meirs
