The Story
About the Yanuka
Why he's called “the Yanuka”
From a young age he knew an unusual amount of Torah, so people began calling him “the Yanuka” — a word from the Zohar for a young person with rare knowledge. The name stuck.
Today many people come to his shiurim, from all kinds of backgrounds. Some are simple Jews looking to grow; some are serious scholars. They come to learn and to be lifted.
His shiurim
He usually speaks without notes. A shiur often starts from a question someone asks, and from there he brings sources from all over the Torah and ties them together into one clear idea.
People say the shiurim changed how they think and how they daven. That's really the goal here — to bring his Torah to more people, in English.
His music
He loves music. After a shiur he'll often sit at the piano and play niggunim — some that others wrote, and some of his own. A few of them are on this site.
One thing he keeps teaching
A theme that comes up again and again: love every Jew, and respect every person. He teaches that people who look very different are closer than they think, and he tries to bring them together.
Tefillos
He has written many tefillos over the years — for parnassah, for a refuah, for a shidduch, for children, and more. You can read and download them here, including his latest collection.