A native New Yorker, he spent more than 50 years as Rabbi of Temple Sinai, now in Dresher, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree from Yeshiva University, and his rabbinical ordination, and later, a Doctor of Hebrew Literature degree, from Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in New York. He wrote numerous books on Judaism, and wrote several prayer books. An excerpt from the chapter on Passover, from his book Torah Guidelines For Living Like A Mensch (Growth Associates Publishers, 2002):