Chofetz Chaim is a book written by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan about the Jewish laws regarding harmful speech. Chofetz Chaim (Hebrew: חָפֵץ חַיִּים, sometimes styled Hafetz Haim) may also refer to: Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan, often known by the name of his famous book instead of his given name Yeshivos Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Radin, a Suffern, New York Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim or Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen / Rabbinical Seminary of America, Queens, New York Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York (known as Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim of Rochester), an affiliate of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Baltimore; see Zelig Pliskin Other Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation, an American organisation dedicated to spreading the teachings of the Chofetz Chaim book and its author Hafetz Haim, a kibbutz in Israel