Yitzchak Shmuel Halevi Berkovits is an American-born Orthodox Jewish rabbi, rosh yeshiva, rosh kollel, and posek in Israel.
17 Facts About Yitzchak Berkovits
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Yitzchak Berkovits serves as rosh kollel of an international network of evening kollelim run by Linas HaTzedek: The Center for Jewish Values in Israel and the United States, which spreads the awareness of the laws of bein adam lechaveiro.
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Rabbi Berkovits is considered the "unofficial posek" of the kiruv world.
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Yitzchak Berkovits is well-known to international audiences for his telephone tapes and books on shemiras halashon for the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation.
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Yitzchak Shmuel Halevi Berkovits is the only son of Aryeh Leib Halevi and Chana Berkowitz, both Holocaust survivors.
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Yitzchak Berkovits spent much time in the home of his illustrious great-uncle and made relationships with Jerusalem poskim Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and Yisroel Yaakov Fisher.
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In 2001, Yitzchak Berkovits left Aish HaTorah to found The Jerusalem Kollel, a three-year rabbinic ordination and training program which prepares rabbis and kiruv counsellors to serve communities in the Jewish diaspora.
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Yitzchak Berkovits delivers a daily shiur to all levels and is involved in restructuring the yeshiva's curriculum.
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Yitzchak Berkovits will continue his other responsibilities in addition to his duties at Aish HaTorah.
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In 2001, Yitzchak Berkovits began serving as rosh kollel of the Linas Hatzedek Kollel, an advanced kollel dedicated to the study of the laws of bein adam lechaveiro.
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Yitzchak Berkovits serves as nasi and rosh hakollelim of Linas HaTzedek's international network of kollelim and its other study programs.
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In 2009 Yitzchak Berkovits became the Nasi of UK-based charity Torah Live.
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Yitzchak Berkovits is the Nasi of the international organisation Jewish Futures, a platform created to unite diverse educational organisations and initiatives, to ensure Jewish futures and Jewish continuity.
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Yitzchak Berkovits is a leading authority on the laws of bein adam le'chavero, the Torah's guidelines for interpersonal relationships.
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Yitzchak Berkovits has recorded thousands of taped lectures on a vast range of halakhic and Talmudic topics.
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Yitzchak Berkovits is the mara d'asra of Jerusalem's Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood, where he resides.
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In 2007, Yitzchak Berkovits founded a rent control committee in the Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood of Jerusalem in response to price gouging on the part of landlords renting to non-resident Haredi families.