Rav Yitzchak Etshalom was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He attended Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavne, Rabbi Isaac Elhanan Theological Seminary and Yeshivat Har Etzion before receiving Semicha from the Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim. He teaches Tanakh and Gemara at the YULA High Schools, besides being a sought-after Scholar in Residence throughout North America and Israel. His critically acclaimed series “Between the Lines of the Bible” is a methodological guide to the study of Tanakh and his books on
Amos (2024) and Hoshea (2027) are published as part of the Koren Maggid Studies in Tanakh. Rabbi Etshalom lives in Los Angeles with his wife Stefanie, also a dynamic educator; their children live in Yerushalayim, Cleveland and the New York area.