Jacob Landa

Jacob Landa was born in 1893 in Kuraniec

Jacob Landa was born in 1893 in Kuraniec, in Belarus. His father, Rabbi Chaim Moshe Yehuda Leib Landa, was the town's rabbi, and his mother was Gita Feiga. After his father died, Landa became the town's rabbi at age 20, at the urging of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Shalom Dovber Schneersohn.

He founded the Tiferet Bachurim yeshiva in Moscow for newly observant Jews and served the Chabad community in Liepāja, Latvia. In Rostov-on-Don he was appointed court rabbi and oversaw the building of a ritual bath using a new halachic method. In 1930 he married Mina Rabinovich, and he kept close ties with the sixth and seventh Chabad rebbes.

After immigrating to the Land of Israel, he served for 8 months as rabbi of Ramatayim. He then became rabbi and head of the rabbinical court of Bnei Brak, where he founded a kosher supervision system. He also taught Jewish law and the Tanya and was a member of the Chabad rabbinical court.

He died on February 5, 1986, and was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. His son Moshe Yehuda Leib Landa was appointed rabbi of Bnei Brak after him.