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Rabbi Jordan Auerbach is proud to serve as the Rabbi of the Young Israel of North Woodmere (YINW), a vibrant and welcoming community in the heart of Nassau County. Drawing on his extensive background in Jewish education -- he has taught at some of the most prominent yeshivas in the tri-state area -- Rabbi Auerbach works to create an environment where individuals and families can grow together in their Jewish journey.

Driven by a passion for inspiring Torah learning and developing meaningful connections, Rabbi Auerbach provides a rare combination of warmth, creativity and vision to YINW’s classes, programs, and communal life. Through his broad network, he regularly brings world-class speakers and lecturers to the shul, enriching the community’s spiritual and intellectual life.

In addition to his role at YINW, Rabbi Auerbach serves as the Director of Torah Projects and Community Engagement at RIETS, where he engages with leading rabbinic scholars and educators.

Rabbi Auerbach’s leadership is enriched by the partnership of his wife, Sarit, herself a passionate Jewish educator devoted to fostering Torah growth and community connection. Together, they are blessed with two daughters, Leora and Ayelet, whose joy and enthusiasm are felt throughout the shul family.

A native of New Rochelle, NY, Rabbi Auerbach got his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yeshiva University, where he also received semicha. The Rabbi also enjoys music and sports, rooting for the Rangers, Knicks, Mets and Giants.

Rabbi's message

According to Rav Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik, of blessed memory, the holiness of objects in this world emanates from the holiness of the humans who consecrate them. This is definitely the case of kedushat beit ha-kenesset, the sanctity of a shul.

The Yerushalmi (Megillah 3:1), however, articulates a different principle: “כל כלי בית הכנסת כבית הכנסת”; “all of the vessels used in a shul take on the sanctity of the shul.” In other words, the sanctity of the shul spreads to everything used in the shul. Similarly, humans who enter and participate in a shul have the capacity to take on that sanctity, to become so to speak the vessels of the shul. Thus they are at once the sources and the beneficiaries of that sanctity. It follows that the stronger the relationship between the shul and its people, the stronger the sanctity – of both the shul and the humans who inhabit its space.

The Young Israel of North Woodmere prides itself on its people – their warmth, their goodness, and their capacity thus to create a shul of sanctity built on the principles of Torat Chesed, a Torah of loving kindness. We welcome you – for a Shabbat, for a weekday davenning, for learning, for a shiur, for an event, or just to say hello. It would be a pleasure to have you join us on our mission of at once creating and drawing from our of kedushat beit ha-kenesset.

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