Rabbi Barry Kornblau graduated from Yale University in 1988. Upon graduation, he worked as a fixed income analyst on Wall Street, primarily at Goldman Sachs & Co. In 1996-97, he studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion, under the leadership of Rav Yehuda Amital and Rav Aharon Lichtenstein. In 2001, he received ordination from YU/RIETS and still maintains close ties with many of its Roshei Yeshiva as well as with Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Shachter, with whom he has studied after ordination.

In addition to attending to pastoral and other duties at YIHH-WP, Rabbi Kornblau serves as Director of Committees and Operations at the Rabbinical Council of America. He is also a member of the Va'ad Harabonim of Queens.

Rabbi Kornblau has published a number of Torah essays over the years, including "Candles on Yom Kippur: Reinstating a lost minhag", "The Daily and Festival Offerings", and "Bikkurim and Simcha". He also founded and co-edited the now inactive website, TorahCurrents.org.

While maintaining a wide range of Torah and general intellectual interests, Rabbi Kornblau is particularly interested in considering Halacha and Jewish thought from the perspective of their historical development and in various historical contexts, including contemporary cultural and religious contexts. To this end, he was a guest lecturer in Spring, 2004 at the The Dean's Lecture Series at St. John's University's College of Professional Studies, where he spoke on, "Religious Tradition, the Human Person, and Crime." At YIHH-WP, he has presented series of shiurim on "The Messiah in Jewish Thought, Law, and History", "Judaism and Modernity", "Selected Responsa from the Holocaust Period", "The Debate Regarding the Reinstition of Semicha in 15th Century Tzfat", "Why do we still observe Yom Tov Sheni shel Galiyot?", "The History and Halacha of Ascending Har Habayit", "Israeli Prisoner Exchanges in Halachic Perspective", "Do the Mitzvoth Have Reasons?", "Reasons for Mitzvoth of Kashruth in Historical Perspective," "Amalek in Jewish Thought", "The Frequency of Our Recitation of Birkat Kohahim," and "Jewish Ideas of the Afterlife". He has also taught year-long classes on "Prayer and the Siddur," as well as on Luzatto's Mesillat Yesharim. He is also fond of teaching the ideas of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and other modern thinkers.

Rabbi Kornblau is married to Dr. Dina Kornblau, a pediatric neurologist who works at St. Barnabas Hospital in Bronx, NY. They are blessed with five children, Sarah, Yoni, Rachel, and twins, Ayelet and Shira.