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Jeffrey Hoffman
Phone:Â 914-709-0900, ext. 16
Email:Â jhoffman@ajrsem.org
Website (for further information):Â
Memberships:Â Rabbinical Assembly
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| I am available for:Â Weekends,Individual lectures / concerts,Lecture series / concert series,Consult on lecture / concert programming |
| Biography:Â Thursday, Jeffrey Hoffman is Professor of Liturgy at The Academy for Jewish Religion in Yonkers, NY. He holds a doctorate in Jewish Liturgy (the literature of prayer) from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was ordained as a rabbi. He is the editor of The Rabbinical Assembly's Siddur for Tisha B'Av, co-author of Karov L'Chol Korav, For All Who Call: A Manual For Enhancing the Teaching of Prayer, as well as several articles and reviews.
Before he began teaching Liturgy full-time, he served as a pulpit rabbi in Vancouver, B.C. for three years and in Nyack, N.Y. for twenty years.
He has plays electric guitar and is a fan of the Grateful Dead.
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| My topics include: |
- Why do we pray? History and meaning
- To Whom do we pray? History and meaning
- The Shema or Amidah with Deeper meaning
- The Zohar: THE Major Jewish Mystical Text
- The Erotic Experience of God
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| My general fee range is $2000+; details: |
For an individual lecture, my fee is $1001-1500; details:
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For a series of lectures, my fee is $501-1000; details:
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For consulting, my fee is <$500; details:
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| My quoted fees include travel: No |
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