Baruch Sorotzkin

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Rephoel Baruch Sorotzkin
Telz Yeshiva
Began1964
EndedFebruary 10, 1979
BuriedHar HaMenuchot

Rephoel Baruch

Telz Yeshiva
in Cleveland and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders.

He was born on February 5, 1917 (13th of

Zhetl, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus). His father, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin was the town's rabbi
. As a young man, Sorotzkin studied under Rabbi
Kamenitz
.

In 1940, Rabbi Boruch Sorotzkin married Rochel Bloch, daughter of the Telzer Rav and Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch.

Sorotzkin was involved in the "tension" over visas needed to flee: the two factions were "those from Lithuanian versus Polish Yeshivot;"

Telz Yeshiva
in Cleveland, Ohio.

Teaching

In 1943 Sorotzkin began delivering classes in the yeshiva. In 1953 Sorotzkin was appointed associate dean of the yeshiva.

In 1962 Sorotzkin became dangerously ill and the name Rephoel was added to his name.[2] In 1964, when the Telz Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz died, Sorotzkin together with Rabbi Mordechai Gifter assumed the leadership of the yeshiva.

In the Telzer tradition, Rabbi Sorotzkin extended his sphere of activities to include even more areas of communal responsibility, such as working for

Torah Umesorah[2] and Agudath Israel of America
where he served as one of the youngest member of its Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah - Council of Torah Sages.

In 1977, with the establishment of the Yeshiva in Israel, Rabbi Mordechai Gifter left to head the Yeshiva in Israel.

Sorotzkin died on Saturday, February 10, 1979.

Family

His Brothers:

  • Rabbi Elchonon Sorotzkin, author of Leman Achai VeRai and leader of the Chinuch Atzmai;[citation needed]
  • Rabbi Baruch Sorotzkin, rosh yeshiva of the Telz yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio; [5]
  • Rabbi Eliezer Sorotzkin, founder of Kiryat Telz-Stone in Israel; [6]
  • Rabbi Yisrael Sorotzkin, rosh yeshiva in Lomza and Av Beit Din in Petah Tikva; [7]
  • Rabbi Benzion Sorotzkin, leader of Chinuch Atzmai.[citation needed]

His daughter Rebetzin Rassia Busel died in March 1998.[citation needed]

His sons:

His sons-in-law:

  • Rabbi Yaakov Busel was dean of RJJ of Edison, New Jersey. Rabbi Busel died on November 3, 2020.[10]
  • Rabbi Aryeh Schulman is rabbi of Kiryat Telz-Stone, Israel
  • Rabbi Nosson Boruch Herzka was a Rabbi and prominent Torah scholar in Lakewood, New Jersey. Rabbi Herzka died on December 8, 2018.
  • Rabbi Yisroel Brog is dean of Tiferes Avigdor Wickliffe, Ohio.

Many of his lectures on Talmud have been posthumously published, under the title Sefer Habinah V’habrachah,[11] by his children. Rabbi Sorotzkin's wife died in November 2006.[12]

References

  1. ^ Anglicized Boruch by Jewish Telegraphic Agency/JTA
  2. ^ a b c "Rabbi Boruch Sorotzkin Dead at 61". JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency. February 12, 1979.
  3. ISBN 978-0-88125-666-6
    .
  4. ISBN 978-1571818485
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  5. ^ "Lot 55". tiferet-auctions.co.il. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
  6. ^ 'אלול' בממלכת טלז. yadmeir.co.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
  7. ^ "Page 1491". Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
  8. ^ "Petira of Hagaon HaRav Elya Meir Sorotzkin ZATZAL, Rosh Yeshiva of Springfield". TheYeshivaWorld.com. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Rav Elya Meir Sorotzkin zt"l". Matzav.com. November 27, 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Petirah of Harav Yaakov Busel ZT"L, Rosh Yeshivah Edison [UPDATED]". November 3, 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  11. ^ "This Day In History 13 Shevat/February 9". Hamodia.
  12. ^ Rebbitzen Rochel Sorotzkin A”H
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