Mordechai HasoferAuthor · Kashrut expert
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Practical Jewish books from 25 years inside kashrut

For a quarter of a century Mordechai Hasofer approved ingredients and food production for the Bnei Brak rabbinate. His books bring that experience to your kitchen, your travels and the Megillah.

See the booksStories for the Soul

Available on Amazon and from Gefen Publishing House, in English and Hebrew.

A Guide for Life Through the Eyes of the Book of EstherGuide for the Kosher TravelerA Handbook for Keeping Kosher
Books in print

Three books, each in English and Hebrew

Every title is published by Gefen Publishing House and sold worldwide on Amazon.

Free for families

Stories for the Soul

Short narrated stories about the people who carried Jewish history forward, told for children aged 7 to 12. Each story closes on a clear moral and is made to modest visual standards, for families to watch together.

The bedtime stories Mordechai and Devorah read to their eight children grew into this library. Every story is free, in English and in Hebrew, as video and as audio.

200+narrated stories
2languages
7–12recommended ages
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Mordechai Hasofer
About the author

From HACCP consulting to the Bnei Brak rabbinate

Mordechai Hasofer was born and raised in Australia. He studied at the Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand in Melbourne, then mechanical engineering and chemistry at NSW Technical College.

A pioneer of HACCP food-quality consulting in Australia, he went on to serve for 25 years as Manager of Ingredients and Food Production under Harav Moshe Yehudah Leib Landa zt"l, Chief Rabbi of Bnei Brak, approving production for companies including Coca-Cola and Strauss Ice Cream.

25 yrskashrut supervision of ingredients and production
50+marriages through his shidduch service in Australia
8children, and a library of bedtime stories
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Lectures and consulting

Mordechai lectures in Israel and abroad on the halachic and technical sides of kosher food production. He consults for kashrut organisations on ingredient analysis and on setting up kosher production facilities.

  • Kashrut in modern food production
  • Ingredients and additives
  • Keeping kosher while travelling
  • Megillat Esther and the Rema's Mechir Yayin
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