Yonasan David

Yonasan Dovid David (also known as Jonathan Dovid David) is the rosh yeshiva ("dean") of Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok and Kollel Ohr Eliyahu in the Har Nof section in Jerusalem. He also serves as the co-rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin together with Rabbi Aaron Schechter in Brooklyn, New York City.

Rabbi David is married to Rebbetzin Dr. Bruria David née Hutner the only child of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner, and they have no children. His brother is Rabbi Hillel David a noted posek ("decisor [of Jewish law] ") in Brooklyn.

Rabbi David became a disciple of Rabbi Hutner when he enrolled at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin as a teenager. He subsequently also spent time at the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin

A number of years prior to his passing in 1980, Rabbi Hutner officially announced that Rabbi Aaron Schechter and Rabbi Yonasan David would both serve as co-equal rosh yeshivas of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. This was done when the yeshiva moved to its location on Coney Island Avenue in 1966 and Rabbi Hutner declared to all present that henceforth Rabbi Schechter and Rabbi David would share seats at the front of the main beth midrash (the main study hall of the yeshiva) with Rabbi Schechter sitting at the front right and Rabbi David at the front left, and with Rabbi Hutner sitting in the center. Even after the death of Rabbi Hutner, the center seat has been left empty as a kind of "holy spot", with Rabbi Schechter continuing to occupy the front right position. When Rabbi David returns for brief visits from Israel he assumes his position in the front left of the beth midrash. The seating arrangements reflect both Rabbi Schechter's and Rabbi David's positions of supreme authority within the totality of the yeshiva.

Rabbi Yitchok Hutner's legacy

Rabbi and Rebbetzin David have edited the works of Rabbi Hutner, known as "Pachad Yitzchok" and Rabbi David has issued his own contributions based on Rabbi Hutner's thoughts.

Trans-Atlantic rosh yeshiva

Rabbi David resides in Jerusalem for most of the year, but he returns to Brooklyn for most of the Hebrew month of Nisan to celebrate Passover and for some of Tishrei to celebrate the start of Sukkot) and serves as rosh yeshiva at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin during that time together with Rabbi Aaron Schechter.

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*List of rosh yeshivas