Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer
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Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer was a teacher at Yeshivas Ohr
Somayach and Bais Yaakov d’Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch in Monsey, New
York, and at Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in New Jersey. He has
served as Rav, Rebbe and Rosh Kollel in the Chicago
and New York areas. He also serves as a writer and editor for the
Taryag Legacy Foundation, working on the monumental Encyclopedia of the
613 Mitzvoth; of the Daf Yomi publication, Daf Digest; and other
Torah projects. Rabbi Bechhofer is one of the few individuals to have
taught both Daf Yomi Bavli and Daf Yomi Yerushalmi (structured daily
Talmud study programs),
completing both. He is also senior lecturer for the Aishdas Society and
has published many essays in major Orthodox Jewish periodicals. His
published books are: The Contemporary Eruv: Eruvin in Moderern
Metropolitan Areas; Bigdei Sheish on Bava Batra, and Bigdei Shesh on
Sefer Shoftim. Rabbi Bechhofer has studied in many institutions,
including
Sha’alvim in Israel, Ner Israel Rabbincal College in Baltimore and Mir
of NY and Israel. He received Rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Yitzchok
Koolitz zt”l, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, and Rabbi
Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg, Av Beit Din of Jerusalem. He also holds a
Masters Degree in Education (concentration in Counseling and Guidance)
from Johns Hopkins University.
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