Yitzchak Berkovits

Yitzchak Berkovits (Hebrew: יצחק ברקוביץ‎), also spelled Yitzchak Berkowitz, (b. 1953) is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, rosh kollel and posek (halakhic decisor) in Jerusalem. Through his 16 years as mashgiach ruchani of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah and EYAHT College of Jewish Studies for Women, he built a reputation as a lucid orator on halakhic and philosophical topics and a caring mentor for hundreds of English-speaking, baalei teshuva young men and women. He is considered one of the spiritual leaders of the worldwide baal teshuva movement.

Berkovits is the founder and rosh kollel of The Jerusalem Kollel, an institute dedicated to training rabbis and Orthodox Jewish outreach counselors for communities in the Jewish diaspora. Many of his students fill prominent positions around the globe. He is regarded as a "rabbi's rabbi" and as an adviser to hundreds of rabbis. He is also the dean and rosh hakollelim of Linas HaTzedek: The Center for Jewish Values, which is dedicated to spreading the awareness of mitzvot bein adam lechaveiro (mitzvot between man and his fellow man). He leads the Center's network of evening kollelim in Israel and the United States.

He is well-known to international audiences for his telephone tapes and book on shemiras halashon (laws of proper speech) for the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation. He serves as a Moreh Tzedek (religious guide) for Jerusalem's Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood, where he resides, and leads that community's Congregation Minyan Avreichim.

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