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Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi ברוך מרדכי אזרחי | |
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Title | Rosh Yeshiva |
Personal | |
Born | |
Died | 26 October 2023
Jerusalem, Israel | (aged 94)
Religion | Judaism |
Nationality | Israeli |
Spouse | Shulamit Ezrachi |
Alma mater | Hebron Yeshiva |
Position | Rosh Yeshiva |
Yeshiva | Ateres Yisrael |
Other | Member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah |
Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi (27 March 1929 – 26 October 2023) was an Israeli Haredi (ultra-orthodox) rabbi, and a leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews. [1] He was the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Ateres Yisrael in Bayit Vegan in Jerusalem, [2] and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah from the Degel HaTorah faction. [3] [1] [4]
Ezrachi was the son-in-law of Rabbi Meir Chodosh. [5] In 1976, he started a yeshiva in Bayit Vegan called Ateres Yisroel which he moved to Modi'in in 1979.
He died on 26 October 2023, at the age of 94. [6]
Ezrachi's brother is Rabbi Yitzchok Ezrachi, a Rosh Yeshiva at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Ezrachi wrote many volumes of commentary on Torah, Talmud, halacha (Jewish law), Jewish festivals, and thought, called Birkas Mordechai ( Hebrew: ברכת מרדכי Blessings of Mordechai).
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