He then traveled to the Volozhin yeshiva where he studied under Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, "Netziv", for six years.

Shkop married a niece of Eliezer Gordon, and in 1884 was appointed a rosh mesivta at Telz Yeshiva,[3] where he remained for 18 years.

While there, he developed a system of Talmudic study which became known as the "Telz way of learning;" this approach combined the above, the logical analysis and penetrating insights of Rav.

[4] As the Russian army was about to enter Grodno during World War II, Shkop ordered his students to flee to Vilna.

His Sha'arei Yosher (1925), his most important work, is largely concerned with the intellectual principles by which the law is established, rather than with concrete laws, and is stylistically similar to the Shev Shema'tata of Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller, on which it was partly based.