Rabbi and teacher

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (YY) Jacobson lectures to audiences on six continents and in forty states, and teaches and mentors thousands across the globe.

Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson
Dean · TheYeshiva.net
Founder of TheYeshiva.net, an online Torah class with students worldwide.

Background

Raised on the Rebbe's teachings

Born in 1972 in Brooklyn, Rabbi Jacobson grew up in the Lubavitch community, absorbing the teachings and writings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

In 1988, at 15, he joined a small team of "oral scribes", charged with memorizing and transcribing three to seven hours of the Rebbe's talks on Shabbat and Jewish holidays, when recording devices are not used.

Teaching

TheYeshiva.net

Rabbi Jacobson founded TheYeshiva.net and serves as its dean, teaching one of the largest online Torah classes in the world, with thousands of students globally.

He was formerly editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner Journal and spiritual leader of Congregation Bais Shmuel. He is the author of A Tale of Two Souls, a 150-part audio series on the Tanya, and has written more than a thousand articles on Biblical and Talmudic studies, Jewish law, Kabbalah and Chassidism, history, psychology, education, relationships and Israel.

Lecturing

Six continents

Over the last 25 years Rabbi Jacobson has traveled to hundreds of communities, schools and universities, speaking to audiences of all backgrounds.

He was the first rabbi invited by the Pentagon to deliver the religious keynote to the US military Chief of Chaplains and to the National Security Agency.

Scholars in residence