Hershel Schachter

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Rabbi Hershel Schachter

Rabbi Hershel Schachter (born 1941) is a Rosh Yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), Yeshiva University, in New York City. He is a noted Talmudic scholar and a prominent posek for the kashruth division of the Orthodox Union along with Rabbi Yisroel Belsky.

At the age of 22, Rabbi Schachter was appointed as an assistant to the renowned Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik. Rabbi Schachter earned his B.A. from Yeshiva College, an M.A. in Hebrew Literature from the Bernard Revel Graduate School in 1967, and received Semicha in that same year.

In 1967, at the age of 26, Rabbi Schachter joined the faculty of RIETS, as its youngest Rosh Yeshiva. In 1971, Rabbi Schachter was appointed Rosh Kollel, or dean of the Kollel, at the Institute for Advanced Research in Rabbinics.

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Rabbi Shachter has written many Seforim. They include:

Eretz HaTzvi (with an approbation by Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz)
B’Ikvei HaTzon (with an approbation by the famed Rabbi Pinchas Hirschsprung)
Nefesh HaRav - a biography of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
MiP’ninei HaRav

He has also written more than 100 articles, in both Hebrew and English, for scholarly publications such as HaPardes, HaDarom, Beth Yitzchak, and Or Hamizrach.