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- Hebrew Name: יִנּוֹן מַלְאָכִי
- How We Know: Heard from Reliable Source
Type of wearer: Mekubal
There are some people you meet—or hear about—who make you stop and think, “This is what it looks like when Torah breathes.” Rabbi Yinon Malachi shlit”a is one of those individuals.
He’s not just a seasoned talmid chacham. Rav Yinon is a mekubal in the classic sense, deeply anchored in the mesorah of the Arizal. But he’s not about titles. He’s about authenticity, about living Torah with precision and heart. His sefer, Shulchan Ariel, published by Feldheim, doesn’t just collect halachos—it distills the depth of the Arizal’s teachings into a format that’s clear and grounded. For anyone trying to follow the derech of the Arizal, this sefer is more than helpful—it’s necessary.
What really sets Rav Yinon apart, though, is his approach to mitzvos. He wears techeiles in his tzitzis—not as a statement, but as a continuation of a mesorah that speaks to him on the deepest level. It’s not about trends or movements. It’s about doing the mitzvah the way he believes it was meant to be done. That kind of quiet conviction? It stays with you.
And while some scholars stay behind the shtender, Rav Yinon is out there—teaching, guiding, answering real-life shailos. His shiurim cover everything from nigleh to nistar, halacha to Kabbalah. And the way he presents it—accessible, never condescending—makes you want to listen. He somehow manages to bring down deep concepts without diluting them, and that’s no small feat.
He’s the Av Beis Din of Badatz Choshen Mishpat in Elad, a position that comes with weight—but he wears it lightly. His psakim are precise, yes, but they’re also infused with a sense of care. He doesn’t pasken from a pedestal; he paskens from a place of achdus and achrayus.
What stands out, more than anything else, is the way people talk about him. Not just as a Rav, but as a human being. Warm. Soft-spoken. Present. You’ll hear stories of people who came for a psak and left with hadrachah for life.
There’s no self-promotion here, no branding. Just Torah. Just emes. Just a man doing what he was clearly put here to do: spread light.
You can find his shiurim on YouTube – even mekubalim have channels these days. But the ruach, the depth, the sincerity—that’s all Rav Yinon.
He’s not here to shake things up. He’s here to hold things down—to preserve the kedushah of what came before and make sure it doesn’t get lost in what comes next.
