Aaron rakeffet rothkoff biography

Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff (born December 2, 1937^[1]) is Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Yeshiva University's Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem. He is a noted scholar, author and teacher who has taught thousands of students throughout his over 55+ years of teaching.

He spent four years studying under Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and remained very close to him afterwards.^[2]

Biography

Rabbi Rakeffet attended Bnei Akiva as a youth.

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Meir Kahane was one of his madrichim (counselors). Rabbi Rakeffet met his future wife Malkah while giving a shiur at Bnei Akiva.^[3]

Rabbi Rakeffet started his career in 1961 as a pulpit rabbi at Lower Merion Synagogue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.^[4] In 1962, he moved from Lower Merion to become spiritual leader of the first Orthodox synagogue in suburban Essex County, Congregation Beth Ephraim of Maplewood and South Orange, New Jersey.

During that time, he also served as a high school rebbe at Yeshiv