Baruch Simon

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Rabbi Baruch Simon is a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NY. His formal title is the Colonel Jehiel R. Elyachar Professor of Talmud. Prior to giving shiur in MYP, he was faculty at the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies at Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Simon graduated from the YU high school and continued on to graduate magna cum laude, with a B.A. in Judaic Studies from Yeshiva College. He was chosen to deliver the Birkat Preidah, or farewell address, a singular honor given the Yeshiva Program valedictorian.

Rabbi Simon is the author of a sefer of divrei torah on the parsha entitled Imrei Baruch, which has been published in numerous volumes.

A talmid of Rabbi Herschel Shachter, he lives with his wife, son and daughter in Washington Heights, New York.

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• Shiurim by Rabbi Baruch Simon

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