I am posting this because it might be useful to readers. My wife, who, like her grandfather, is a very very serious Tehillim sayer, asked me this morning whether she can say Tehillim after Chatzos on Tisha Ba'av. I don't know why after all these years she asked me. I would have preferred that she not have asked me, because the benefit I get from her Tehillim far outweighs the risk that she might be doing the sin of saying divrei Torah on Tisha B'av. But once it was out of the box, I had to tell her that her grandfather said she may not.
Reb Moshe is quoted by his talmid Rav Ephraim Greenblatt in Rivevos Ephraim (and in Shmaitsa d'Moshe,) as saying one may not say Tehillim on Tisha b'Av.
The Dirshu in 554 sk13 brings from Rav Shmuel Vosner that general Tehillim is assur, but for a specific Choleh it is muttar.
I can not say that Rav Vosner's svara is pashut. If people say Tehillim derech bakasha, then sure, you would be mattir for a choleh or in time of danger. This would limit it to those sections that express distress and fear and the hope for yeshua, obviously not to Hallel or Hodu or Mizmor l'Soda. But if people say Tehillim because they hope the zechus of saying Tehillim will bring a yeshua, then you can not be mattir even for a choleh. You could say the same about all limud haTorah, and obviously we do not say that.
The Dirshu also brings that Rav Chaim Kanievsky said that the psak of the Chazon Ish is not clear and therefore those who quote him as having paskened one way or the other are not correct.
On the other hand:
The Magen Avraham (sk 6) is pretty clear, to me, that he is mattir all Tehillim. Obviously the above osrim hold that he is only talking about the Shir shel Yom, but I do not see how that is possible.
Rav Yaakov Emden in Siddur Beis Yaakov seems to say it is muttar, but he is no more clear than the Magen Avraham. Pashtus, he is being mattir generally. But it can be read to mean only what you would normally say as part of Tefillas Shachris. Again, I find that hard to believe, because then he would just say Shir shel yom.
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