Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi

Israeli Haredi rabbi (1929–2023)

ברוך מרדכי אזרחי‎

TitleRosh YeshivaPersonalBorn(1929-03-27)27 March 1929

Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine

Died26 October 2023(2023-10-26) (aged 94)

Jerusalem, Israel

ReligionJudaismNationalityIsraeliSpouseShulamit EzrachiAlma materHebron YeshivaPositionRosh YeshivaYeshivaAteres YisraelOtherMember 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.

Works

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).

References

^ ^a ^b Ettinger, Yair (21 October 2013). "Analysis The Irreparable Split in Israel's Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox Community". Haaretz. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
^ "Ateres Yisrael Yeshiva Buildings in Yerushalayim Approved - Yeshiva World News". theyeshivaworld.com. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
^ "HaGaon Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi Taken to the Hospital - Yeshiva World News". theyeshivaworld.com. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
^ "Ateret Yisrael". www.torahindex.com. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
^ "BDE: Rebbetzin Shulamis Ezrachi, Wife Of Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, Passes Away At 91 - VINnews". Vos Iz Neias. 27 December 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
^ "Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi passed away at 94". Israel National News. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.

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