Yehudah Jacobs

Rabbi Yehudah Jacobs (c. 1935^[1] – April 27, 2020) was a mashgiach ruchani (counselor) in Beth Medrash Govoha,^[2] the largest yeshiva outside of Israel and the second largest in the world after the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.^[3][4]

Rabbi Yehudah Jacobs רב יהודה ג'ייקובס
Personal life
Born	c. 1935 Cologne, Germany
Died	April 27, 2020 Lakewood, New Jersey, U.S
Nationality	United States
Spouse	Ruthie Jacobs ​ ​ (m. 1985, died)​ Mrs. Esther Jacobs
Parents	Asher (father) Esther (mother)
Alma mater	Beth Medrash Govoha
Religious life
Religion	Judaism

Biography

Jacobs was born about 1935 to Rabbi Asher and Esther Jacobs in Cologne, Germany.^[1] He studied in Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood Township, New Jersey starting in the late 1950s under Rabbi Aharon Kotler.^[5] He married his first wife, Ruthie, and they settled in Lakewood. He soon was appointed the mashgiach of Beth Medrash Govoha alongside Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel,^[6] a position he held for many years. After his first wife died (c. 1985), Rabbi Jacobs married his second wife, Esther. In 2010, he moved to Israel, where he stayed for a few years, all the while keeping up with the Lakewood Yeshiva. He later returned to Lakewood.

On April 27, 2020, he died of COVID-19 in Lakewood.^[7]