Halachic Musings: President Trump and Hakaras Ha’Tov
The world is a better place because of Winston Churchill. He inspired the free world to fight against the evil of Hitler, yemach sh’mo. However, we, the world, demonstrated...
Halachic Musings: Making Minyan as a Single Father
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The rise in the divorce rate in the Orthodox community has created a situation where more and more fathers face a dilemma of either personally watching...
Halachic Musings: Women Learning Torah
A recent article published by JTA highlighted a Siyum HaShas for women only, spearheaded by an Orthodox woman. Michelle Cohen Farber, founder of Hadran: Advancing Talmud Study for Women...
Halachic Musings: Reboot Our Moral Compass
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Attention all EMTs:
“If you feel that the sick person you are tending to has a good chance of not making it, just leave him there. We...
Business Halacha: Beis Din Or Not?
Mr. Nadel decided he would daven vasikin every morning. For a number of months he upheld this practice scrupulously. However, as time wore on, he found himself exhausted during...
Halachic Musings: Eradicating Amalek By Eliminating Ga’avah
As we read the parashah of remembering what Amalek did to us, there are a number of areas we can examine. What are the reasons for this mitzvah? Are...
The Case of the Missing Shoe at Playgroup
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
A young child was dropped off at playgroup in the morning with two socks and two shoes. Upon pickup, however, the child is wearing the two...
The Overweight Men and the Great Weight Loss Bet
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The story must have happened a number of years ago, because the question was posed to Rav Elyashiv zt”l.
Apparently, a group of overweight men got together...
Halachic Musings: Arresting Anarchism
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
First it was the city council of Minneapolis. Then it was the mayor of New York. And now it is in two dozen other states. The...
Halachic Musings: Thanksgiving
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
It could be known as the “Great Modern-Orthodox/Yeshivesh Divide,” although it has not yet entered the list of “Shidduch questions” that are generally posed to parents...