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Yitzhak Lichtenstein

Yitzchak Lichtenstein is an Israeli-American Orthodox rabbi who has served as a rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn since 2018.

born 1962Rosh yeshiva of Torah VodaasEditing the Soloveitchik family writingsRabbi of Bais Avrohom, Monsey

Occupation: rosh yeshiva

Yitzhak Lichtenstein was born in 1962

Yitzchak Abba Lichtenstein was born in 1962. He is the second son of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and Dr. Tovah Soloveitchik, daughter of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. In 1971 the family moved from New York to Israel, when his father became rosh yeshiva at Yeshivat Har Etzion.

He studied at the Netiv Meir high school in Jerusalem. He received rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University in 1983, where he learned under his grandfather. He also studied at the Lakewood Yeshiva and at the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem under Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik.

He became rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Nesivos HaTorah in Staten Island and rabbi of the Bais Avrohom congregation in Monsey. He also taught at the Orchos Chaim yeshiva in Monsey, at Agra D'Pirka and in other places. In October 2018 he was appointed rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, alongside Rabbis Yosef Savitsky and Yisroel Reisman.

He edits and publishes the writings of his ancestors Chaim, Moshe and Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He is married to Rochel Grozovsky, a granddaughter of Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky, a former rosh yeshiva of Torah Vodaas.