Yeshivat Tiferet Torah is privileged to have Rabbi Nissan Hakakian, shlita, Rosh Hayeshiva, at its helm. The Rosh Hayeshiva is a master mechanech with over two decades of chinuch experience. Rabbi Hakakian also serves as the Rav of the Sephardic Kehilla of South Monsey, and a respected posek.
Rabbi Hakakian received semicha from Rav Massas, zt"l, while learning under the tutelage of Hacham Shalom Cohen, zt'l, at Yeshivat Porat Yosef. He subsequently learned in the Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn under Rav Shmuel Birnbaum, zt"l and Rav Kalmonowitz, zt"l.The Rosh Hayeshiva treats and cares for every talmid as if each were his own son. The students respond in kind, forming lasting bonds which last a lifetime.

Rabbi Chaim Schabes is the Rav of Knesset Yisroel and a renowned Monsey posek. Rabbi Schabes’s studies have taken him around the world from Long Beach Yeshiva to Yeshivat Ponovezh in Eretz Yisrael where he learned under Rav Shach, zt”l, and Rav Shmuel Rozovsky, zt”l.

Rabbi Schabes went on to learn in Bet Medrash Gavoha of Lakewood under the leadership of Rav Shneur Kotler, zt"l, before serving as Rosh Kollel in Mexico City for eight years.
Rabbi Schabes possesses an extraordinary ability to bring life into his shiurim, forming them into something each talmid can gain and learn from.

​Rabbi Moshe Nadoff, our Rosh Kollel, learned at Yeshiva Torah Temima in Brooklyn under R' Shlomo Fivel Schustel. He studied for eight years in Yeshivas Brisk in Eretz Yisroel before receiving Semicha at Yeshiva Bet Midrash Gavoha of Lakewood.

Upon moving to Monsey, R' Moshe learned in Kollel Lomdai Shas in the Cheasnut Ridge community and prior to the Kollel opening was a Shoel U'Mashiv at our Yeshiva. 

As the much respected Rosh Kollel of Kollel Tiferet Torah, Rabbi Nadoff leads with authority and efficacy, and weaves an everlasting relationship between the bachurim and avrechim and bringing out the best in each so they continuously progress in their learning and growth.