Our Rebbeim

Hailing from the Bronx, New York, Rav Buckler has spent his illustrious 30-year career educating and inspiring his תלמידים with clarity of thought and erudition. His hundreds of  תלמידים attest to absorbing his unique approach, which challenges them to uncover new perspectives in the סוגיא. He was a distinguished תלמיד of ישיבת נר ישראל, where he enjoyed a remarkably close relationship with the Rosh HaYeshiva, הגאון רב יעקב יצחק רודרמן זצ"ל. Following his marriage to the daughter of longtime RIETS Rosh Yeshiva and Lander College, Rabbi Parnes, Rav Buckler arrived in Eretz Yisrael to learn from the renowned Gadol הגאון רב אבא ברמן זצ"ל. After many years of learning under Rav Abba’s directive, Rav Buckler accepted the position to deliver the top Shiur at ישיבת אור ירושלים, a position he held for twenty years. Rav Buckler serves as Rosh Kollel of the Ner Yaakov Yitzchak Kollel and is a תלמיד of הגאון רב דן סגל שליט”א. Rabbi Buckler looks forward to welcoming all to Ohr HaTalmud and introducing a new generation to the light and clarity that one can achieve by learning daf after daf of Talmud along with being able to make a kesher to his Rebbe, the noted Mashgiach, Rav Don Segal, Shlit"a.

Rav Yacov Moshe is a dynamic תלמיד חכם who draws from the breadth of ש”ס to enrich the לימודים with nuance and lomdus. Patient and good-natured, he spends whatever time it takes until a תלמיד fully understands the depths of a particular concept. Additionally, his grasp of worldly knowledge also fascinates and educates his תלמידים. Originally from West Hempstead, New York, he is a תלמיד of הגאון רב רפאל שמואלביץ זצ”ל and הגאון רבי אשר אריאלי. Prior to his current position as a Rebbe in Yeshivas Chosein Yehoshua, he served as a Rosh Chabura in Yeshivas Mir and also is a community rav and leader of a shul in Ramat Beit Shemesh Gimmel.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Rabbi Menashe Rosen has spent the last 25 years studying and being associated with Talmidei Chachamim in some of the finest Yeshivos. Upon completing a BA in Psychology and receiving Rabbinic Ordination from Yeshiva University and RIETS, Rabbi Rosen studied with the Kollel Elyon as a Kupietzky Kodshim Scholar. Rabbi Rosen studied and has given חבורות in Yeshivas Mir in Jerusalem, Rabbi Yaakov Friedman's (ברכת מרדכי) in Beitar, Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns, Rabbi Binyomin Forst's Kollel in Far Rockaway, and Rabbi Ephraim Kirschenbaum's Kollel in Aish HaTorah. Rabbi Rosen served as a Rebbe and recruiter at Aish Gesher, a presenter in Aish HaTorah's Discovery Seminar, and the program director for Destinations Kiruv training program for Yeshiva students. Rabbi Rosen recently published Sefer Nishmas Halevi and is the Rosh Kollel of כולל קול קלמן night Kollel in Ramat Eshkol.

Originally from Teaneck, New Jersey, Rav Cooper has been learning and teaching in Eretz Yisrael for the past 20 years. He began his studies in ישיבת שעלבים, after which he spent two years in ישיבת תורת משה and finally continued to Yeshivas Mir, where he learned under הגאון רב אשר אריאלי שליט”א and eventually became a respected Rosh Chabura in the Yeshiva. In all, Rav Cooper spent over 20 years involved in Yeshivas Mir, developing close, lasting relationships with many of the ראשי ישיבה and Rebbeim there. For the past 7 years, he has been a night seder Rebbe in Yeshivas Reishit in Bet Shemesh and was a Rebbe during afternoon seder in Rav Engel's Yeshiva for 2 years.