Rabbi Yitzchak Schwartz is one of Orchos Chaim's Roshei Yeshiva. After making aliyah in 1974, he studied in prominent yeshivas, including 15 years as an advanced scholar at Yeshiva Torah Ore. He received rabbinic ordination from the Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, shlita, and from Rabbi I. Kulitz, shlita, chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Rabbi Schwartz served as mashgiach of Torah Ore and as a community rabbi in Seattle, Washington before founding Yeshiva Orchos Chaim in 1993 together with Rabbi Fabian. Rabbi Schwartz is the guiding force behind the Pathways kiruv program and a dynamic speaker who has inspired Jews around the world. His dedication to Torah and his students is unbounded. He lives with his family minutes from the yeshiva in Givat Zev near Jerusalem.

Email Rabbi Schwartz at: yschwartz@orchos.org

Rabbi Lombard was born in Israel, raised partly in Israel and partly in Los Angeles. He served in the IDF and continued studying in various Yeshivos, spending more than a decade in Torah Ohr where he authored a sefer about halachic measurements and co-authored a halachic sefer for kohanim about the prohibition of tumas mes. He heads a worldwide organization that helps kohanim maintain their special status including a beif horaa for kohanim. In Orchos Chaim he leads an elite cadre of young men who are excelling in their studies, and simultaneously continues to develop his expertise in the less known halachos of seder Taharos in which he is considered an expert.

Email Rabbi Lombard at: ylombard@orchos.org