By Rabbi Yair Hoffman The American legal system is an adversarial system – where opposing sides fight vigorously before an impartial judge or jury in order to best discover truth.  From a Torah perspective, since it is very hard to find qualified people

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman It is always important to broaden our understanding of the Avodah of the Beis HaMikdash, may it soon be rebuilt. 

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Beginning tonight, Wednesday evening, December 4th, 2024, we begin reciting the phrase “V’sain Tal Umatar” (And give dew and rain for a blessing) in the Shmoneh Esrei prayer of the Maariv (evening) ser

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman It was the spring of 1948.

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman There is an oustanding Rabbinic figure in Persian Jewish history that is not so well known outside of the Persian Jewish community, but he stands as the earliest and most accomplished  commentators and poets in Jewish P