Finally, the Truth About the Erroneous Newly Written Sifrei Torah
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The question addressed in this article is whether or not that newly written Sefer Torah is actually kosher or not – even though it may even have gone throu...
Second Wedding Halachos
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
It may be a bit shocking, but the Marriage Foundation has studied the issue extensively and has determined that, statistically, 31% of second marriages fai...
This Video Will Help You Answer “Yes” to Question #4
The news coming out of Eretz Yisroel each day is very sad. The Gemara in Shabbos (31a) lists a number of questions that we have to answer for:
Rava said: After departing f...
THE STORY CONTINUES…Survivor Blanche Fixler Addresses Bais Yaakov Girls About Holocaust
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Last week, a Bais Yaakov high school was addressed by Holocaust survivor Mrs. Blanche Fixler of Kew Gardens. Mrs. Fixler's grand-daughter arranged fo...
The Pink Bloomingdales Dress
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
A young lady ordered a dress, a pink one at Bloomingdales online. It was 70% off. But can she wear it? What about covering the dress with a bla...
Can You Lie Not to Get Ripped Off?
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
QUESTION: There is a local second-hand shop where the owner and his employee kind of make up prices in, what seems to me, a manner that is based upon their...
Whatever Happened to the Ship that Saved the Mir Yeshiva?
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The Titanic sank in 1912, when it hit an iceberg. The Amakusa Maru sank thirty years later - in 1942. The Titanic was located in 1985. The...
12 Ideas as to How to Protect Yerushalayim
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The recent tragic terrorist acts on Highway One outside of Maleh Adumim are viewed by Mishteret Yisrael and the IDF as a game-changer. Traffic, somet...
The Handicapped Parking Sign and Extending its Use
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
QUESTION: Recently, while playing basketball, I tore my Achilles Heel tendon. The recovery time, I am told is six months. The doctor gave...
Is Parking at a Meter and Not Paying Gezel?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
It is something that perhaps every resident of New York City and the surrounding area has experienced. You park on a public street and you do not have your...
A Glimpse of Rav Dan Segal shlita and Rav Dov Kook shlita
Rav Dov Kook is known as the Tzaddik of Tveriah. He and his wife, Rebbitzen Leah, open their home to all- the poor, the broken and the downtrodden. Rav Dov’s Beis Medra...
Watch This First Hand Account of Escaping to Shanghai by Rav Dovid Kviat zt”l!
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
They were the greatest generation of recent times. The Alter Mirrers rebuilt our Torah Infrastructure after the Holocaust.
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The Freed Hostages and the Brachos
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The entire Jewish nation is elated that, Boruch Hashem, two of the hostages have been freed - Louis Har and Fernando Marman, who w...
Remembering a Friend of Israel From the Five Towns: US Marshal Alfred McNeill
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
He had travelled many times to Israel to lend them his expertise. Alfred McNeill was a remarkable example of a military and police expert who told it...
The Chabad Doctor Who Saved the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
It was a difficult time in the travails of the miraculous escape of the students of the Mir Yeshiva in Poland. With their visas obtained from Sugihara, the...
97th Yahrtzeit of the Alter of Slabodka
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
This week, on Thursday, the 29th of Shvat, will be the 97th Yartzeit of the Alter of Slabodka. The topography of today’s Torah world would have...
The Mazi Pilip Endorsement
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
This morning someone sent out a political video that supported a candidate in this upcoming election. This article is meant with the greatest of resp...
Kallah Teachers, BRCA Genes, and a Tweak that Could Save Lives
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Ten years ago, this author wrote an article that advocated a tweak to our Kallah teacher curriculum having to do with cancer screening. The tweak cou...