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Yonason Sacks is an Orthodox rabbi and the Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College for Men, a division of Touro University, 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 Pinchas Bak 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 University.

Works

Sacks is the author of more than 45 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 Chanuka on the holiday of Chanukah
Vihigasa Bo Yomam Valaya, a three-part series on mitzvos, Torah study, and middos (traits)

References

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

External links

Articles and audio at torahweb.org
Biography of Rabbi Yonason Sacks at yutorah.org

Roshei Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University

Rosh HaYeshiva Emeritus: Norman Lamm
Dean: Michael Taubes
Dean Emeritus: Menachem Penner
Senior Mashgiach Ruchani: Yosef Blau
Mashgichim: Ely Bacon; Josh Blass
Roshei Yeshiva: Elchanan Adler; Assaf Bednarsh; Eliyahu Ben Haim; J. David Bleich; Yitzchok Cohen; Daniel Feldman; Menachem Genack; Meir Goldwicht; David Hirsch; Dovid Horwitz; Elyakim Koenigsberg; Dovid Miller; Yaakov Neuburger; Hershel Reichman; Michael Rosensweig; Hershel Schachter; Ezra Schwartz; Eli Baruch Shulman; Baruch Simon; Zvi Sobolofsky; Daniel Stein; Mayer Twersky; Jeremy Wieder; Mordechai Willig

Former Roshei Yeshiva: Avraham Eliezer Alperstein; Nisson Alpert; Yosef Leib Arnest; Samuel Belkin; Yehuda David Bernstein; Abba Bronspiegel; Ahron Dovid Burack; Avigdor Cyperstein; Solomon Drillman; Henoch Fishman; Yitzchok Ginsberg; Ozer Glickman; Yerucham Gorelick; Aharon Kahn; Michael Katz; Shlomo Nosson Kotler; Yaakov Moshe Lessin; Aharon Lichtenstein; Zvulun Lieberman; Dovid Lifshitz; Moses Meir Matlin; Shraga Feivel Paretzky; Yehuda Parnes; Shlomo Polachek; Moshe Aharon Poleyeff; Elazar Meir Preil; Bernard Revel; Shimon Romm; Yonason Sacks; Melech Schachter; Moshe Shatzkes; Shimon Shkop; Ahron Soloveichik; Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Moshe Soloveichik; Ephraim M. Steinberg; Moshe Tendler; Shmuel Volk; Joseph Weiss; Shalom Elchanan Yaffe; Gershon Yankelewitz; Mendel Zaks

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