Yonason Sacks

Yonason Sacks is an Orthodox rabbi and the Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College for Men, a division of Touro College, as well as the spiritual leader of the Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov^[1] in Passaic, New Jersey.

Family[]

Sacks' grandfather was one of the leaders of Jewish education in Chicago, Illinois, and his great-grandfather was the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank. Sacks dedicated his first book, Chemdas Yomim (focusing on the laws of the Sabbath) in memory of his father.

Sacks lives with his family in Passaic.

Education[]

Sacks attended the high school headed by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Rabbi in Riverdale, New York in the mid 1970s.

Sacks graduated from Yeshiva University in 1981 and was ordained by the University's affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1984. Two years later, he was awarded yadin yadin semicha.

Rosh Yeshiva[]

Sacks was rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University from 1994 until 2012, when he became rosh yeshiva at Beis Midrash L'Talmud, a part of Lander College, a division of Touro College.

Works[]

Sacks is the author of more than 30 Jewish books, including:

Hagadas Chazon L'Yomim (Hebrew and English)
Chazon L'Yomim 1, 2 & 3 on Tractates Pesachim and Beitzah
Chemdas Yomim on the laws of Shabbos
Orchos Yomim on kriyas shema and shmoneh esrei
Yimei Temimim on Pirkei Avos
Yimei HaPurim on the holiday of Purim
Yimei HaSefira on the days of Sefirat Ha'omer
Yom HaZikaron on the holiday of Rosh Hashanah
Yimei Chanukaon the holiday of Chanukah
Vihigasa Bo Yomam Valaya, a three-part series on mitzvos, Torah study, and

References and external links[]

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^ "RABBI YONASON SACKS". AGUDAS YISROEL BIRCAS YAAKOV of PASSAIC. Retrieved 2019-04-28.

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[1] "RABBI YONASON SACKS". AGUDAS YISROEL BIRCAS YAAKOV of PASSAIC. Retrieved 2019-04-28.

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