About Ohr Of The Shore

A Critical Community Organization

Providing Critical Infrastructure For The Jersey Shore Community

If you are a member of the Jersey Shore community, you probably don't realize it, but you benefit daily from the work of the Ohr of The Shore and Ohr Halacha kollel.

It's easy to take for granted the stunning array of options the Jersey Shore offers to the kosher consumer, without recognizing the tremendous effort needed to bring the kashrut level up to the standards required by halacha.

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What makes Ohr of The Shore and Ohr Halacha unique?

The Ohr Halacha Kollel is one of a kind in it's focus and outcomes. No other institution provides a path directly from learning to practice as clearly as Ohr Halacha.

Under the leadership of Rabbi Hayim Arking and Rabbi Binyamin Seruya, the kollel focuses its learning on questions coming up in every day life, on chats, in conversations, in live examples in a restaurant or home.

The rabbis in the kollel are capable of dissecting an issue with all its angles and coming up with the correct halachic answer, which requires a deep and extensive background in the material.

Instant Halacha Chat

Our rabbis are available during business hours to answer questions from the community. If you are in the need of halacha assistance, click here to start a chat and get an answer within a few hours.

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Halacha FAQs

Our Kollel is also active in publishing material that will bring relevant halacha to the layman in an easy and appealing way. Many members of our community enjoy our timely Halacha FAQs, which can be viewed below:

  • Yom Kippur FAQs

    Do we have to eat bread on Erev Yom Kippur? There is a mitsvah to eat on erev Yom Kippur. HaShem, as a loving father, gave us the mitsvah to...

    Yom Kippur FAQs

    Do we have to eat bread on Erev Yom Kippur? There is a mitsvah to eat on erev Yom Kippur. HaShem, as a loving father, gave us the mitsvah to...

  • Simanim FAQs

    Our meals on the nights of Rosh Hashanah, are enhanced with specific foods that represent their respective good qualities. Because the beginning is so potent and ominous to forbearing, we...

    Simanim FAQs

    Our meals on the nights of Rosh Hashanah, are enhanced with specific foods that represent their respective good qualities. Because the beginning is so potent and ominous to forbearing, we...

  • High Holiday FAQs - 5785

    יֶרַח הָאֵתָנִים - The Powerful MonthRosh Hashana through Sukkot FAQs The month of Tishre is a powerful time to grow and connect with Hashem.  Ohr of The Shore presents a...

    High Holiday FAQs - 5785

    יֶרַח הָאֵתָנִים - The Powerful MonthRosh Hashana through Sukkot FAQs The month of Tishre is a powerful time to grow and connect with Hashem.  Ohr of The Shore presents a...

  • Tisha B’Av FAQs – 5784

    Rabbi Hayim Asher Arking Rabbi Ezra Ghodsi The gradual entry to the most reflective day in our history starts with the Fast of Tamuz and the weeks that follow; then...

    Tisha B’Av FAQs – 5784

    Rabbi Hayim Asher Arking Rabbi Ezra Ghodsi The gradual entry to the most reflective day in our history starts with the Fast of Tamuz and the weeks that follow; then...

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Sofer Center

In additional to becoming kashrut experts, the kollel trains rabbis to become sofrim (writers of religious documents, such as mezuzot, tefillin, and sifre torah). This fills a vital and ever growing need to provide the community with the mezuzot and tefillin that are required every day. These items are available for this website at our sofer center. [Click Here]

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We Need Your Support

To keep our Kollel functioning, our budget is over $30,000 per month. As a supporter of this vital organization, you would be partnering in thousands of merits that occur every time someone is helped by one of our rabbis, which happens many times every day.

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