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 is a graduate of 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 dollars 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. As well, he has 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.
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Excerpt from: Anash.org, MIDDOS, MENTCHLICHKEIT, AND A LOVE FOR TORAH by melamid Rabbi Zalman Schapiro
Which of your teachers impacted your teaching today?
I frequently think of my first grade melamed, Rabbi Avrohom Kass. I can still see him in my mind’s eye, his glasses slipping down his nose due to the perspiration he built up while teaching us with such chayus.
One memory that I refer back to often is during the week of Parashas Va’eira, and Rabbi Kass was teaching us about makas barad. It was a snowy day outside, and our classroom was situated on the roof with the exit door behind the Rebbe’s desk. Rabbi Kass opened the door and scooped up a ball of snow, packing it tightly into a nice snowball, and placed it on the table. Rabbi Kass then took out a lighter and placing it under the snowball which he had picked up, proceeded to demonstrate how it melted. “This is nature,” He exclaimed. “In makas barad, Hashem brought fire and ice together, and the ice did not extinguish the fire within it.” I am sure our eyes didn’t blink for that entire demonstration. He was so dedicated to our chinuch.
It is this type of chinuch that I want to impart onto my students. Yiddishkeit is alive. “S’iz geshmak tzu zein a Yid!” There is nothing like being a Yid and having a part of Hashem inside of us. I try to bring that to my talmidim. Being a Yid is not doing things by rote. It is not just going through the motions. Yiddishkeit needs to flow through every part of us, truly making us alive.
Anash.org, MIDDOS, MENTCHLICHKEIT, AND A LOVE FOR TORAH
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Rabbi Kass loved his students. In addition to teaching PRE 1A, he led the Tzivos Hashem Rallies, built a playground, organized the recording of the Oholei Torah choir, made a g’mach for the melamdim, raised money for poor families, started and participated in, together with Rabbi Shmarya Katzen, the Grand 770 Mesibas Shabbos, and more. In the picture, Rabbi Kass’s students have the Tzivos Hashem hats on. Being in the Army of Hashem is a full-time job!
Rabbi Avrohom (Abe) Kass MA RSW RMFT CCHT, has successfully worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and families for thirty plus years.
Rabbi Kass has created Jewish Marriage Self-Help website that features the Kosher Marriage Gym, hundreds of clinically proven books, relationship tips, advice, tools, videos, and quizzes for those individuals in need of assistance.