Rabbi Yonason Sacks: Balancing Different Areas of Torah Study

Recorded on January 15, 2017 at the Orthodox Union's Torah in the City: Indoors at Citi Field event. See more at https://www.ou.org/convention/shiur/ A leading posek and author of 20 seforim, Rabbi Yonason Sacks descends from a long line of illustrious rabbinic personalities. His great-grandfather, the legendary Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, served as Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim for more than 50 years. His grandfather, Rabbi Menachem Sacks, was a leader of Jewish education in Chicago for nearly six decades, and his father, Rabbi Louis L. Sacks, was rabbi of Congregation Anshe Emunah in Delray Beach, FL. For the last quarter century, Rabbi Sacks has been a leading figure in disseminating Torah as a Rosh Yeshiva and Rebbe. For 18 years he was a Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) at Yeshiva University where he was ordained and awarded Semikhah Yadin Yadin, an advanced rabbinic ordination. Currently, he is the Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College for Men. He has been the Rav of Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov in Passaic, NJ for more than 20 years.