ABSTRACT
Rabbi Shofet was one of the most prominent Iranian Jews of the twentieth century. In Iran there still lives a relatively large Jewish community (approximately 10,000–20,000 Jews), and at the time when Shofet lived in Iran, it was even greater. He was born in Kashan to a famous Iranian rabbinical family. He reached the position of the Iranian Chief Rabbi in the time of the Shah and often defended the interests of the Iranian Jews before the Iranian politicians and Muslim religious authorities. He was considered to be very religiously knowledgeable and was generally popular. He left Iran after the Islamic revolution in 1979 and moved to California, where he spent the rest of his life.
