Rabbi Moshe Taragin

Rabbi Moshe Taragin has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion for the past 30 years. He has Semicha from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, a BA in Computer Science from Yeshiva College, and an MA in English Literature from City University. Rabbi Taragin previously taught Talmud at Columbia University, lectured in Talmud and Bible at the IBC and JSS divisions of Yeshiva University, and served as Assistant Rabbi at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue.

In addition, Rabbi Taragin currently teaches at the Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. He is the author of an Internet shiur entitled "Talmudic Methodology" with over 5,000 subscribers a weekly shiur on Pirkei Avot with over 1400 subscribers and has delivered thousands of audio shiurim featured on YU Torah as well as the Yeshivat Har Etzion “Audio Beit Midrash” (KMTT) on gemara, mussar and chassidus.

Rabbi Taragin is a frequent lecturer in Jewish communities across the Jewish world. He has authored a machzor for Yom Ha’atzmaut (Koren) a collection of religious and moral responses to October 7^th entitled “Dark Clouds Above, Faith Below, (Kodesh press). and “Reclaiming Redemption: Deciphering the Maze of Jewish History” (Mosaica Press)

Additionally, he is a weekly columnist for the Jerusalem Post and numerous other Jewish weeklys on issues of Religion and Modernity and also authors a weekly column for the OU Israel Torah journal entitled Geulas Yisrael.

Rabbi Taragin and his wife have 8 children and reside in Gush Etzion.