Yechiel Perr


Rabbi Yechiel Yitzchak Perr is an American-born rabbi. He is the founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Derech Ayson in Far Rockaway, New York.

Biography

Yechiel Yitzchak Perr grew up in South Ozone Park, Queens, where his father, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Perr served as a rabbi for over 50 years. Rabbi Perr attended high school at Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. After completing high school, he studied at the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, and then at Lakewood Yeshiva in Lakewood, New Jersey under the tutelage of Rabbi Aharon Kotler from 1954 to 1962.
Perr married Shoshana Nekritz, daughter of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Nekritz, granddaughter of Rabbi Avraham Yaffen, and great-granddaughter of the Alter of Novardok, Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz. It was after his marriage that he came into contact with the Novardok tradition. He went on to study at Yeshivat Beis Yosef-Novardok in Brooklyn, New York. In 1969, he established the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway, which also runs a high school and an accredited rabbinical studies program.
A series of his conversations on mussar are recounted in the following books by Alan Morinis:
Additionally, Rabbi Yehuda Kielson published two books, “Mind Over Man,“ and “Faith Over Fear,” based on Rabbi Perr’s Mussar lectures based on Sefer Madraigas H’adam.