Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
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Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer earned S’micha (Rabbinical ordination) from HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Weinberg, Z”L, Rosh HaYeshiva of Ner Israel Rabbinical College.
He has held teaching positions in Yeshivat HaKotel, Aish HaTorah, Yeshivas Derech Etz Chaim,
Beis Midrash D’Rabbeinu Shmuel Yaakov, and is currently a member of the faculty of Michlala College for women in Jerusalem and Yeshivas Ohr Yerushalayim in Beit Meir.
In 1997 Rabbi Bechhofer founded Yeshivas Yesodos HaTorah which he heads until today.
He has lectured in Neve Yerushalayim and Ner L’elef training programs in Israel, and internationally in the US, Canada, Mexico, England, and Australia.
Rabbi Bechhofer is the author of Even Shisiah a monumental philosophical work on the Rambam’s (Maimonides’) Thirteen Principles of Faith.
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