Baruch Epstein

Baruch Epstein
Rabbi
Position Menahel
Synagogue Ezras Torah
Yeshiva Volozhin Yeshiva
Successor Rav Henkin
Personal details
Born 1860
Bobruisk, Belarus
Died 1941
Pinsk, Belarus
Nationality Lithuanian
Parents Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein
Profession Bookkeeper

Baruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein (18601941) (Hebrew: ברוך הלוי אפשטיין) was a Lithuanian rabbi, best known for his Torah Temimah commentary on the Torah. He was the son of Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, rabbi of Novarodok and author of the work Arukh HaShulkhan.

Biography

Epstein grew up in Novarodok, where his father was the communal rabbi, but moved to the city of Pinsk after his marriage and lived there until his death, apart from a period from 1923 to 1926, which he spent in the United States of America looking (unsuccessfully) for a rabbinic position. During this period he served as the first menahel (director) of Ezras Torah from around 1924 until he was succeeded by Rav Henkin around the year 1925.

Although Epstein was a bookkeeper by profession, he had been a student at the Volozhin Yeshiva (under his uncle Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin) and authored a number of popular and scholarly works.

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