Rabbi Y. Chazan

Rabbi Yossi Chazan was born in New York, USA and educated at the celebrated Mesifta Torah VeDaas. He is a graduate from Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim (Lubavitch) in Kfar Chabad, New Haven, Montreal and New York.

In 1981 Rabbi Chazan became a Kollel fellow at the Yeshiva Centre in Melbourne, Australia, from where he developed a reputation for scholarship and excellence. In 1984 he was appointed Director of Education at the Jewish Cultural Leisure Centre where his reputation grew as a vibrant and challenging leader serving both the immediate North Manchester Jewish community and regionally in the North of England.

In 1991 Rabbi Chazan accepted the offer of Rabbi of the prestigious Holy Law South Broughton Hebrew Congregation and his skilled erudition extended his widening fame within the community, interpreting with lucidity and clarity difficult and problematic portions of Torah, Talmud and Halocho. For many years his weekly summer series of Shabbat afternoon Shiurim have attracted a broad spectrum of North Manchester Jewry, with men and women attending regularly in their hundreds. Rabbi Chazan is a tireless worker within his congregation, which is very proud of his unstinting parochial work from giving Shiurim to visiting the sick in hospitals, to helping individuals, couples and the young and old in a friendly and welcoming manner.

He is known locally as 'The Rabbi who never sleeps' for if Rabbi Chazan is not working for his own shul, every other minute of the day is taken-up with learning, visiting local high schools, delivering Shiurim and offering a whole host of associations, friendship groups and individuals his support and energy. All this is completed with time to spare for what has become an energetic yearly international speaking tour, which can include three of five continents.

CHANGE & INNOVATION IN HALACHA The Halachic Process & Compromise as a Halachic Alternative

Farbrangen with Rabbi Chazan

Gimmul Tammuz Tribute 2018

Change and innovation in the Halachic process

Compromise as an Halachic alternative

Ethical guidelines in treating elderly parents: housing, mental incompetence, etc.

Halachic aspects of chinuch (training children in Jewish observance)

Keeping up with the Goldberg's - The Chumra Syndrome

Music in Halachic perspective

Parallel traditions: S'fardim and Ashkenazim

Shidduchim: finding marriage partners for children

The parameters of Rabbinic authority

The role of scientific information in Halachic decision making

Who is an Apikores (heretic)?

Women and Jewish communal leadership

Women and the redemption of the Jewish people

Drug Abuse (Tape 1 of 2)

Earning a Living and the Kollel Student

Jewish Professional life in a secular world

Mysticism and The Paranormal - Dangers & Opportunities

Praying at the gravesites of Tzadikim

The Modern Synagogue and the Empty Pew

The Spiritual History of the Torah (Tape 1 of 4)

The Spiritual History of the Torah (Tape 2 of 4)

The Spiritual History of the Torah (Tape 3 of 4)

The Spiritual History of the Torah (Tape 4 of 4)

Who's the Boss - Faith and Human Initiative

Women in the Synagogue and Study Hall

Moshiach and the Millennium

Moshiach: Is it still an issue?