Updates from the Halacha Commission and articles of interest
Igud Halacha Challenge, Adar 1 5779
Enclosed are this month’s she’eilah about honoring an entering rabbi during another rabbi’s speech and answers to she’eilos of the last two months regarding the precedence of kohanim and weddings in and out of Jerusalem. Please send answers to this month’s question to Igud.Halacha@gmail.com. [...Click headline above for more...]
Igud Halacha Challenge, Shevat 5779
Enclosed are this month’s she’eilah about the precedence of kohanim and the answers to last month’s she’eilah about weddings in and out of Jerusalem. Please send answers to this month’s question to Igud.Halacha@gmail.com. [...Click headline above for more...]
Publication: Kaddish For An Extended Relative
Igud HaRabbonim is proud to publish this essay on Kaddish for an extended relative, written by the Director of our Va’ad Halacha, Rav Gil Student shlit”a.
Igud Halacha Challenge Teves 5779
Enclosed are this month’s she’eilah and the answers to last month’s she’eilah. Please send answers to this month’s question to Igud.Halacha@gmail.com.
These questions and answers are courtesy of Rav Mordechai Tzion, author of Shu”t HaShoel (2 volumes), Shu”t Eretz Yisrael and other seforim available for purchase on HavaBooks.org.il. [...Click headline above for more...]
Publication: Hilchos Chanukah
Hilchos Chanukah
Igud HaRabbonim is proud to make available Kuntres BeHilchos Chanukah, a booklet on the laws of Chanukah, written by the organization’s Moreh Tzedek, HoRav Leibel Wulliger shlit”a. [...Click headline above for more...]
Chief Rabbi David Lau’s Maskil LeDovid
Rav Dovid Lau, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, published this new sefer comprising many of his rulings while sitting as a dayan
Piskei Din Rav HaRoshiIgud Halacha Challenge Kislev 5779
Enclosed are this month’s she’eilah regarding Chanukah and the answers to last month’s she’eilah of whether a rabbi should make kiddush on grape juice so he can answer halachic inquiries. Please pardon the length but last month’s she’eilah generated robust discussion. Please send answers to this month’s question to Igud.Halacha@gmail.com. [...Click headline above for more...]
Igud Halacha Challenge Cheshvan 5779
How Many Walls For A Sukkah?
Ifyou can choose between two sukkos, one with three walls and another with four walls, should you specifically prefer the one with four walls?
Answers from many including Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlit”a, Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl shlit”a, Rav Yitzchak Zilberstein shlit”a and others: [...Click headline above for more...]
Igud Halacha Challenge, Tishrei 5779
Milk that fell into meat food
If milk falls into a pot of meat, can you ask a gentile to taste? If he does not taste the milk, can a Sephardi taste and if he does not taste the milk either, give it to an Ashkenazi? [...Click headline above for more...]