Rav Yitzchak Etshalom has been a dynamic and exciting educator in the Los Angeles community since his return to his hometown in 1985. He launched the Beit Midrash program at YULA Girls High School as well as opening the Beit Midrash at Shalhevet, where he currently serves as Rosh Beit Midrash. He is a sought-after Scholar in Residence throughout the country and in Israel. He lectures annually at the prestigious “Yemei Iyyun” Tanakh Seminar at Herzog College and has thousands of podcasts of Tanakh and Gemara shiurim online. Rav Etshalom received his Semikha from the Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem and is currently pursuing his graduate studies in the Bible Department at Bar-Ilan University. His critically acclaimed series “Between the Lines of the Bible” is a methodological guide to the study of Tanakh and his second book, on Amos was published in 2024 as part of the Koren Maggid Studies in Tanakh.