Watch This! The Song the Alter Mirrers Sang on the Ship to Kobe, Japan
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Many of us are talmidim, children, or eineklach of those who were known as Alter Mirrers. Unfortunately, most are gone. What follows is a small...
Tu Bishvat is Also an Opportunity to Enhance Our Brachos Kavanna and Knowledge
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
There are so many dveikus-enhancing themes that can be explored tonight in regard to Tu B'Shvat. One such them is enhancing our dveikus by upgrading our re...
The New “Flip” Business Model and Anonymous Names
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sefas Tamim Foundation
QUESTION: So, there is a company called “Flip” which pays you in “product dollars” for a review and for referring othe...
Is the Parshas HaMahn Segulah Countermanding Pirkei Avos?
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
If someone were keeping tabs on these things, it is perhaps the Parnassah Segulah that has gone most viral of all other Segulos. Numerous Torah internet si...
Infant Milk Technology – Q&A
By Y. Hoffman
Let’s face it. Companies are constantly creating new baby technology. There is the Doona Car seat/stroller/infant seat. There are the latest and ...
The Case of the White Castle Hamburger
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
A religious friend who works in an office in Manhattan related the following story:
A formerly observant colleague came into my office and said, “You ar...
Rav Chatzkel Levenstein zt”l on Rav Dovid Kviat zt”l at His Sheva Brachos
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Over 73 years ago, Reb Chatzkel Levenstein, zt’l, the mashgiach of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Shanghai and of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in B’nei Brak, spoke at the w...
Watch Roy Neuberger on the International Court of Justice and Terrorism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xc2MhActTU
Why Kids Are Not Putting on Tefillin..
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
There is a machalah that is affecting talmidim in Eretz Yisroel as well as the United States. It is a hidden elephant in the room.
Thirteen years ...
May I Borrow Your Snow Blower?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The Chofetz Chaim wrote a number of famous works. He wrote the Mishnah Berurah commentary on the Orach Chaim section of Shulchan Aruch. He also wrote Sefer...
Grave of Sara Schenirer Desecrated With Nazi Slogan and Knocked Down
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
It seems that anti-Semitism never dies. This time, it reared it’s hateful, cowardly head in Poland again.
Yesterday, it was discovered that the gr...
Update on the Mordechai Ovadia Agunah Case
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The person pictured above, Mordechai Ovadia, has left his wife without a Get for eleven years. He has been missing for the past nine years. His w...
But When the Church Also Kidnaps Children.. And the Movie.. REVISED BASED ON NEW INFORMATION
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
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Recently, the Jewish world was shocked when Pope Francis labelled Israel's attempt to remove Hamas from power a...
Focusing on the Torah Value of Honesty
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Let’s Do a Pidyon Shvuyim as a Zchus for Ourselves and for Klal Yisroel
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Yochanan Herschlag is a frum young man, whose father is a sofer. Yochanan is from Yeshiva Avni Kodesh and has been languishing in prison for a long t...
Rav Mattisyahu Solomon zt”l: What Every Seminary Girl Should Know About What We Lost
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Unfortunately, many young women in seminary have never been exposed to our Gedolei Torah. This week we lost one of Klal Yisroel's leadi...
21 Halachos of Aninus
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
written l'zaicher nishmas Rochel Bas R' Moshe Zelig Schreiber a"h - mother of my good friend, Rabbi Nosson Schreiber.
Often, a person suffers a loss of ...
What We Need to Know About Asarah B’Taives
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
What is Asarah B’Teives all about?
On the 10th of Teives, Nevuchadnetzar, the evil king of Bavel began the siege against Yerushalayim during the time of...
Did Turkish MP Really Die While Criticizing Israel?
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
It makes for a good headline, but is it really true that an Opposition Turkish MP was struck dead for criticizing Israel? What was the deputy head of...