Yitzchak Berkovits

Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits
Rabbi Berkovits, 2023
Personal life
Born	Yitzchak Shmuel Halevi Berkovits Brooklyn, New York, US
Parent(s)	Aryeh Leib Halevi and Chana Berkovits
Alma mater	Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)
Religious life
Religion	Judaism
Jewish leader
Predecessor	Rabbi Noah Weinberg
Position	Rosh yeshiva
Yeshiva	Aish HaTorah
Began	2019
Other	Rosh kollel, The Jerusalem Kollel
Residence	Jerusalem, Israel

Yitzchak Shmuel Halevi Berkovits (Hebrew: יצחק שמואל הלוי ברקוביץ) is an American-born Orthodox Jewish rabbi, rosh yeshiva, rosh kollel, and posek (arbiter of Jewish law) in Israel. In 16 years as Menahel Ruchani (spiritual director) of Yeshivas Aish HaTorah and halakha (Jewish law) lecturer at EYAHT, Aish HaTorah's College of Jewish Studies for Women, he built a reputation as a lucid orator on Jewish law and philosophical topics and a mentor to hundreds of English-speaking, baalei teshuva young men and women. In 2001, he founded The Jerusalem Kollel, a rabbinic ordination and training program which prepares students for kiruv (outreach) positions around the world. In 2019, he was appointed rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. He also serves as rosh kollel of an international network of evening kollelim run by Linas HaTzedek: The Center for Jewish Values in Israel and the United States, which spreads the awareness of the laws of bein adam lechaveiro (mitzvot between man and his fellow man).

Rabbi Berkovits is considered the "unofficial posek" of the kiruv world.^[1] He is well-known to international audiences for his telephone tapes and books on shemiras halashon (laws of proper speech) for the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation.