Rabbi Avrohom Kass, MA RSW RMFT CCHT, is a registered clinical Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist. Rabbi Kass is a member of the Ontario College of Social Workers, the Ontario and American Associations for Marriage and Family Therapy, the Canadian Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the National Board for Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists, and the National Organization of Forensic Social Workers.
Rabbi Kass graduated from Norwich University in Vermont, where he received his interdisciplinary master’s degree in Social Work and Family Therapy. He also has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of California, where he graduated with honors. He successfully completed his internship at Jewish Family and Child Service in Toronto and the George Hull Center for Children and Families in Etobicoke. He is a former professor of psychology at the Beth Jacob Academy of Higher Learning in Toronto.
Rabbi Kass’s rabbinical training is from Hadar Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in Brooklyn, N.Y. where he received a master’s degree in Judaic Studies from Rabbi J.J. Hecht. His practicum was at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Flatbush, N.Y., where he received advanced training in Jewish education.
He is a former melamed, having worked at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva and Oholei Torah Yeshivas in Brooklyn, New York, and Cheder Chabad in Toronto, Canada.
Rabbi Kass was awarded in 1985 a ten thousand dollar prize by the Jewish Board of Education in New York in recognition of excellence in Jewish education. The following year, he was honored as the “Teacher of the Year” by the administration and staff at Oholei Torah Yeshiva.
Rabbi Kass initiated the “famous” 770 Mesibos Shabbos.
Rabbi Kass was the founding editor of the Tzivos Hashem Children’s Newsletter.
Rabbi Kass is published throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. He has authored many self-help books. Learn more about Rabbi Kass’s self-help products: Marriage Counseling Self-help.
Past writing has included the editorship of the Tzivos Hashem Newsletter, a regular columnist in the Nshei Chabad Newsletter, World of Lubavitch, Chabad.org, frequent contributor to Ami Magazine, Agudath Israel Perspectives Newspaper, and contributor to countless other publications. He has also authored two Jewish children’s books, each in two languages—Yiddish and English.
Currently, using Zoom and the phone, Rabbi Kass operates a busy therapy practice helping individuals, couples, and families throughout the world solve personal and relationship problems.
He and his wife, Golda, live in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, and have been blessed with children and grandchildren.
