Jacobs was born about 1935 to Rabbi Asher and Esther Jacobs in Cologne, Germany.[1] He studied in Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood Township, New Jersey starting in the late 1950s under Rabbi Aharon Kotler.[5] He married his first wife, Ruthie, and they settled in Lakewood. He soon was appointed the mashgiach of Beth Medrash Govoha alongside Rabbi Nosson Meir Wachtfogel,[6] a position he held for many years. After his first wife died (c. 1985), Rabbi Jacobs married his second wife, Esther. In 2010, he moved to Israel, where he stayed for a few years, all the while keeping up with the Lakewood Yeshiva. He later returned to Lakewood.
On April 27, 2020, he died of COVID-19 in Lakewood.[7]
^Mark Di Ionno. "How Lakewood became a worldwide destination for Orthodox Jews". New Jersey On-Line LLC. Retrieved October 3, 2019. It's Friday in Lakewood. A few thousand young men in black suits and wide-brimmed black hats are rushing toward Beth Medrash Gohova (BMG), the world's largest yeshiva outside of Israel.
^Steve Strunsky (April 16, 2019). "Lakewood yeshiva looks to use old golf course for new campus". New Jersey On-Line LLC. Retrieved April 19, 2019. Beth Medrash Gohova is said to be the world’s largest Jewish-affiliated university outside of Israel.
