Rav Taragin has been a Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion since 1994. He has Smicha from Yeshiva University’s RIETS and an MA in English Literature from City University. He previously taught Talmud at Columbia University and at YU and served as Assistant Rav at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in New York.  

He is the author of “Talmudic Methodology” an internet shiur with over 5,000 subscribers and he co-wrote the commentary for the recently published Koren Machzor for Yom Ha’atzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim.