Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe is a prolific and innovative Torah teacher and podcaster.
Background and Education
Rabbi Wolbe was raised in Monsey, New York. After completing Yeshiva High School at age 16, he began intensive Talmudic and Rabbinic training in The Yad Aharon Institute for Advanced Talmudic Scholarship in Jerusalem. Rabbi Wolbe subsequently transferred to the renowned Mir Yeshiva where he studied under the renowned Sages Rabbi Elyahu Boruch Finkel זצ”ל and יבל”א under Rabbi Asher Arieli שליט”א. He then joined the advanced Kollel at Aish HaTorah for elite Talmudic scholars. Rabbi Wolbe then joined the faculty of Aish HaTorah to teach Mishnah and Talmud and to lecture on various subjects of Jewish philosophy.
Rabbinic Ordination
Rabbi Wolbe holds Rabbinic ordinations from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Chief Justice of the Supreme Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem and from Aish HaTorah, signed by Rabbi Hillel Weinberg.
TORCH
Since 2012, Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe has served as Director of Outreach at TORCH – Torah Outreach Resource Center of Houston. In that capacity, he has delivered thousands of classes, lectures, and workshops on a wide range of subjects, including courses on Jewish History, Talmud, the weekly Parsha, Jewish Philosophy, and Theology.
Podcasts
Since pioneering Jewish and Torah podcasts in 2013, Rabbi Wolbe has released more than 1,000 episodes across six, chart-topping shows (The Jewish History Podcast, The Parsha Podcast, This Jewish Life, The Ethics Podcast, The Mitzvah Podcast, and TORAH 101), which have cumulatively earned more than a million and a half downloads.
Writings
Rabbi Wolbe’s first English-language book, Upon A Ten-Stringed Harp: How Torah and Mitzvos prepare the Soul for Eternity was published in February 2022.
Rabbi Wolbe is also the author of three Hebrew-language works on the Talmud:
”וחי בהם”, a collection of dialectical expositions on the eighth chapter of Talmud Sanhedrin;
“תורת הרודף”, an exhaustive treatise on the various Talmudic discussions and Rabbinic literature pertaining to the laws of a rodef;
”עין הבדלח“, an anthology of Torah essays on 6 tractates of the Talmud.
Grandfather, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe
A scion of a distinguished rabbinic dynasty, Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe frequently invokes the lessons and teachings of his paternal grandfather, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe. Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe was also a senior contributor to the editing and publishing of Shiurei Chumash, a compilation of his grandfather’s lectures on the Pentateuch.
Contact Rabbi Wolbe
Rabbi Wolbe is eagerly anticipating your emails with questions and comments at rabbiwolbe@gmail.com.
Family
Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe is married to Chaya Wolbe. They live in Houston, TX and are the proud parents of Akiva, Yehoshua, Miriam, Shlomo, Yitzy, Rivka, Yisrael Meir, and David.