Yitzhak Lichtenstein

Yitzchok (Yitzchak) Abba Lichtenstein (Hebrew: יצחק אבא ליכטנשטיין; born December 1962) is an Israeli-American Orthodox rabbi who is a co-rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas located in Brooklyn, New York and the former Mara d'asra of Kehillas Bais Avrohom in Monsey. He is a major editor for the writings of Rabbis Chaim Soloveitchik, Moshe Soloveichik and Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He is the second son of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein and Dr. Tovah Soloveitchik.

Biography Yitzchok Lichtenstein went on Aliyah with his family in 1971 from New York, when his father Aharon Lichtenstein was offered the position of Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He studied at the Netiv Meir High School in Jerusalem. He received Semicha at Yeshiva University in 1983, where he studied under his grandfather, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He also studied in the Lakewood Yeshiva and the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem, where he was a student of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, his grandfather's first-cousin.

Lichtenstein was appointed the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Nesivos HaTorah in Staten Island and succeeding Rabbi Avrohom Chain Feuer as the Mara D'asra of the Kehilas Bais Avraham congregation in Monsey.

After two of its four previous Roshei Yeshiva, Avrohom Pam and Yisroel Belsky, had died, Yeshiva Torah Vodaas began a search for a new Rosh Yeshiva. In October 2018, Lichtenstein was appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, alongside the incumbent Roshei Yeshiva, Yosef Savitsky and Yisroel Reisman. Kitvei Rabbeinu Chaim HaLevi: Shas and Rambam Haggadah Shel Pesach: Si'ach HaGri"d Chiddushei HaGra"m VeHaGri"d Chiddushei HaGra"m VeHaGri"d – Inyanei Kodshim Chiddushei HaGra"m HaLevi: Chiddushim U'Beurim Lefi Seder HaRambam

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