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  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

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…

cRc Shavuos Divrei Torah 5785

Articles include:

When did Rus Covert? – by Rabbi Yona Reiss
Standing for Torah Teachers – by Rabbi Shalom Baum
Shavuot: The Forgotten Holiday 5785 – By Rabbi Louis Lazovsky
Shavuos: The Happiest Yom Tov? – By Rabbi Meir S. Moscowitz 

cRc Pesach Divrei Torah 5785 Articles include: The Minhag of “Not Mishing”  Not Eating Out on Pesach – By Rav Yona Reiss Karpas as the Conduit for Connection – Rabbi Yechiel Bresler The Symbolism of the Egg – By Rabbi Daniel Fox The Hardest Words to Say:  “I Was Wrong” – By Rabbi Akiva Males…

cRc Shavuos Divrei Torah 5784 Articles include: Eating a Dairy Meal on Shavuos  – by Rabbi Yona Reiss How the Torah was Given – by Rabbi Eitan Allen Understanding the Dual Nature of Observing Shavuos – by Rabbi Ari Marinelli What in the World are We Thinking… When We Learn Torah – By Rabbi Yosef…

For more than two decades, the Chicago Rabbinical Council has sponsored an annual essay contest open to seniors in local high schools and yeshivot who plan to continue their Torah studies during the following year in Israel. For many years the contest was sponsored through the generosity of our Chaver Rabbi Harold Karp, z”l. In…

For Chicago Rabbinical Currents Volume 2, click -> Here <- Volume 1 | Issue 8  Cheshvan 5785 Child Custody Determinations in Beth Din – By Rav Yona Reiss Papaya and Papain – By Rabbi Dovid Cohen Volume 1 | Issue 7  Tishrei 5785 Pas Yisroel – By Rabbi Refoel Dovid Oppenheimer * Note: Issue 7…

  Listen to Rav Yona Reiss’s shiur here:

Rabbi Kraft and Rabbi Moscowitz spoke with students from HF Hebrew Academy from Missouri.

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