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 leading Mashgichim.  What follows is an overview. Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlita, once observed his father, Rav Nosson Wachtfogel zt”l, the Mashgiach of BMG in Lakewood in a remarkable […]

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman It makes for a good headline, but is it really true that Turkish MP was struck dead for criticizing Israel?  What was Hasan Bitmez attacking when h

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman Rav Shmuel Salant zt”l, (1816-1909) was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim and was a well-known gaon and tzaddik. On Motzai Shabbos – he jumped out of the window of Shul (see Shalmei Todah, Chanukah p. 266).  Why did he do so? The Maaseh Rav (The Vilna Gaon) Hilchos Chanukah 237 states that on […]