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About Rabbi Finman
Rabbi Finman is the Morah D'Asra of Shul by the Grove in Boca Raton. He is a Rav
HaMachshir for the ORB.
His professional career spans 40 years beginning as a pioneer in Kiruv. In addition to
his position as a congregational rabbi and Rav HaMachshir, he continues to work in
Jewish Outreach, Synagogue and Temple consultations and life coaching. As a
Pastoral Counselor his emphasis is in spiritual growth, baal teshuvah issues and
relationshiping. Rabbi Finman is a seasoned rabbinic teacher and scholar in residence.
He also officiates weddings throughout the United States, Mexico, Central America
and the Caribbean.
Rabbi Finman began his kashruth career in the early seventies as a mashgiach at
United Packing, the first glatt kosher slaughter operation in America located outside
of the New York area where he also trained as a shochet (ritual slaughter). The
operation was under the supervision of HaRov Pinchas Teitz, z"l and Harav Shloime
Twerski z”tl, the Denver Rav, a scion of the Chernobyl, Anipoli, Hornistipel and
Bobov schools of Chassidus.
Subsequently he worked in the dairy industry for the KAJ, the Satmar Central
Rabbinical Congress, the Tzelemer Rov and Harav Yidel Gruber; the glatt kosher
meat industry for the Nirbator Rov; has been Rosh Hamashgichim in Passover Hotels
for the Orthodox Association for the Observance of Kashruth and was the initial Rosh
Hamashgichim for the OK at Le Marais restaurant.
As Director of the Vaad Hakashruth of Syracuse he strengthened community-wide
kashrus standards and supervised the kashruth in a dozen stores, caterers and
institutional kitchens. As the Central New York representative for the OU while in
Syracuse, Rabbi Finman also inspected food processors and did occasional work for
the OK and Hisachdus Harabonim.
Rabbi Finman was also employed by Rabbi Shulem Rubin in the Kosher Law
Enforcement division of the New York State Dept. of Agriculture and Markets.
As an independent consultant, Rabbi Finman’s clients have included Le Marais,
Levana and Boychik’s restaurants, Presidential Holiday Tours, Miami Travel Center,
the Bronx Hospital and Home for the Aged and Cunard Lines.
In the past he was in the forefront of Domestic Violence and Alcohol and Drug abuse
issues within the Jewish community.
Rabbi Finman is married to Yehudis Kaplan. Together they are busy supplying love
and support to their fifteen children and twenty-one grandchildren (ken yirbu meod).
Rabbi Finman is the Morah D'Asra of Shul by the Grove in Boca Raton. He is a Rav
HaMachshir for the ORB.
His professional career spans 40 years beginning as a pioneer in Kiruv. In addition to
his position as a congregational rabbi and Rav HaMachshir, he continues to work in
Jewish Outreach, Synagogue and Temple consultations and life coaching. As a
Pastoral Counselor his emphasis is in spiritual growth, baal teshuvah issues and
relationshiping. Rabbi Finman is a seasoned rabbinic teacher and scholar in residence.
He also officiates weddings throughout the United States, Mexico, Central America
and the Caribbean.
Rabbi Finman began his kashruth career in the early seventies as a mashgiach at
United Packing, the first glatt kosher slaughter operation in America located outside
of the New York area where he also trained as a shochet (ritual slaughter). The
operation was under the supervision of HaRov Pinchas Teitz, z"l and Harav Shloime
Twerski z”tl, the Denver Rav, a scion of the Chernobyl, Anipoli, Hornistipel and
Bobov schools of Chassidus.
Subsequently he worked in the dairy industry for the KAJ, the Satmar Central
Rabbinical Congress, the Tzelemer Rov and Harav Yidel Gruber; the glatt kosher
meat industry for the Nirbator Rov; has been Rosh Hamashgichim in Passover Hotels
for the Orthodox Association for the Observance of Kashruth and was the initial Rosh
Hamashgichim for the OK at Le Marais restaurant.
As Director of the Vaad Hakashruth of Syracuse he strengthened community-wide
kashrus standards and supervised the kashruth in a dozen stores, caterers and
institutional kitchens. As the Central New York representative for the OU while in
Syracuse, Rabbi Finman also inspected food processors and did occasional work for
the OK and Hisachdus Harabonim.
Rabbi Finman was also employed by Rabbi Shulem Rubin in the Kosher Law
Enforcement division of the New York State Dept. of Agriculture and Markets.
As an independent consultant, Rabbi Finman’s clients have included Le Marais,
Levana and Boychik’s restaurants, Presidential Holiday Tours, Miami Travel Center,
the Bronx Hospital and Home for the Aged and Cunard Lines.
In the past he was in the forefront of Domestic Violence and Alcohol and Drug abuse
issues within the Jewish community.
Rabbi Finman is married to Yehudis Kaplan. Together they are busy supplying love
and support to their fifteen children and twenty-one grandchildren (ken yirbu meod).
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