Rabbi Yaakov Rosenstein

Rabbi Rosenstein bega Judaism1on1.com as an outgrowth of Torah One on One, his first non-profit organization, which was conceived in the year 2001 in Pittsburgh, PA, as "the rabbi who makes house calls" (See more from Pittsburgh Post Gazette front page article May 28, 2007).

Rabbi Yaakov Rosenstein grew up as a fun-loving Jewish kid known as Jim Rosentein in a Conservative Jewish home where he excelled in sports and music, and he was a young business entrepreneur. It wasn't until he voluntarily walked into Yeshiva Aish Hatorah in the old city of Jerusalem that he began to discover spiritual happiness and intellectual fulfillment.

He began to thirstily study the Torah, Talmud and Jewish philosophy for the next 12 years several Yeshivas (Aish Hatorah, Ohr Somayach, Shaare Chaim and Torah Ore). He received his Rabbinical Ordination (Semicha) in 1994 from Rabbi Zalman Nechemya Goldberg in Jerusalem and then began his teaching and spiritual counseling career. He taught in Jewish elementary and High Schools in Edmonton, Canada, McKeesport, PA and Pittsburgh, PA and served as Outreach Director for the Pittsburgh Kollel Jewish Learning Center all prior to his beginning Torah One on One in 2001.

In 2010, Rabbi Rosenstein founded Judaism1on1.com to make the beauty, wisdom and spirituality of Judaism accessible to the sophisticated, high-tech minded individual of the 21st Century.

Rabbi Rosenstein is excited to share his wonderful personalized teaching and counseling skills with the Pittsburgh community and around the world, in person and via web conferencing.