David Hirsch (rabbi)
Rabbi David Hirsch (born 1968) is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University,.[1] located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. He holds the Eva, Morris, and Jack K. Rubin Memorial Chair in Rabbinics.[2]
Rabbi Hirsch grew up in Peoria, Illinois and attended the Fasman Yeshiva High School in Skokie, Illinois for high school. After graduating from Fasman, Hirsch spent a few years studying in Yeshivat Sha'alvim in Israel. He later graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva College. He is a resident of Passaic, New Jersey, where he is a pulpit Rabbi of Kehillas Bais Yosef,[3] and lives with his wife and five children.
Rabbi Hirsch is a prolific scholar, with almost 1,000 lectures on Judaism captured on media and available online.[4]