Shu”t Melamed LeHo’il
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Dovid Tzvi Hoffman
Dovid Tzvi Hoffman
1843 CE–1921 CE · Acharonim · Verbó
Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffmann (1843-1921) was a Talmudic scholar and halachic authority active in German Orthodoxy. He was born in Verbó, then in the Austrian Empire (today Vrbové, Slovakia), and studied in local yeshivot and at the academy of Pressburg, receiving rabbinic training from Moshe Schick and Azriel Hildesheimer. He also pursued university studies, taking a doctorate from Tübingen in 1871. After a brief period teaching at Samson Raphael Hirsch's school in Frankfurt am Main, he joined the Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin in 1873, and in 1899 succeeded Hildesheimer as its rector. Widely consulted on matters of Jewish law, his responsa were gathered in Shu"t Melamed LeHo'il. He wrote extensively on the Mishnah and the halachic Midrashim, and produced a commentary on the Pentateuch that engaged closely with contemporary biblical scholarship.
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