See the informative series on R. David Tzvi Hoffman at Ishim ve-Shitot-here, here, here, here, and here.
One comment on this important rabbinic figure. In Alexander Marx’s chapter on R. Hoffman in his Essays in Jewish Biography (pp. 190-191), Marx writes the following about Hoffman.
In teaching Codes he would go back to first sources; but [...]
I am a big fan of the Artscroll book, The Rishonim, and I just saw in an ad of their’s that the companion volume, The Early Achronim, is back in print. Any quibbles with some of the biographical or bibliographical information found in these books, is off-set IMHO by the quick reference which they [...]
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It is 100 years ago that Rabbi Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel was born (January 11, 1907/25 Tevet 5667). My opinion of Heschel is far from objective, since I can say will full confidence that I would never have developed the commitment to Judaism and Jewish learning that I have now if it wasn’t [...]
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