cRc Divrei Torah – Chanukah 5786 Contents: There is No Other Choice – Rav Yona Reiss The Spiritual DNA of the Jewish People – Rabbi Michael Myers Chanukah: A Clarion Call for Clarity– Rabbi Chaim Pollock Money May Talk, but Listen to the Chanukah Gelt – Rabbi Yochanan Posner
Honoring cRc Member Rabbi Michael Myers December 13, 2025; 7:30 pm Kehilat Chovevei Tzion
Below s a copy of the letter the cRc sent to the Hauer Family.
By Rav Yona Reiss, Av Beis Din, cRc Generally, there is no obligation to eat in the Sukkah when it rains to the degree that the soup would get ruined. This is based on the exemption of “mitztaer” – that a person who is significantly uncomfortable need not eat in the Sukkah. The Torah says…
The cRc Chevra Kadisha thanks Mrs. Ellen Center for 4 decades of dedicated service as a leading Metaheres, and wishes her Mazal Tov upon her retirement. A special event was organized by the Chevra for all the metaharos with Divrei Chizuk from Rabbi Raccah and an acknowledgement of Mrs. Center’s contributions to the Klal.
The cRc held a get together thanking Rabbi Yochanan Nathan for 4 decades of serving as our sofer. We wish him continued hatzlacha as he makes aliyah.
Shabbat Shuva Drasha Parshas Vayeilech; September 27 HaRav Yona Reiss KINS Main; 5 pm Rabbi Aaron Leibtag KINS North Shabbat morning following Musaf
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