David Zvi Hoffman was a German rabbi, posek, and biblical commentator. In addition to his rabbinical training under Rabbi Moshe Schick and Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer, he also studied philosophy, history and Oriental languages at various universities, completing his doctorate in 1871. He taught under Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch in Frankfurt and succeeded Rabbi Hildesheimer as head of the rabbinical seminary in Berlin. He was an expert in midrash halakhah and the foremost halakhic authority in Germany in his generation. He was a man of great piety, one of the original members of Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah, and, at the same time, employed a critical approach in certain areas of Jewish study. He is well known for his strident literary opposition to the Graf-Wellhausen theories of biblical origin, while on the other hand, he quotes prominent Wissenschaft figures in his research on the Mishnah and Talmud. Some see him as a prototype for the contemporary Orthodox scholar.
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David Zvi Hoffmann on Exodus
David Zvi Hoffmann on Leviticus
Melammed Lehoil Part I
Melammed Lehoil Part II
Melammed Lehoil Part III
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