Honorific-Prefix: | Rav |
Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi | |
Rosh Yeshiva | |
Yeshiva: | Ateres Yisrael |
Yeshivaposition: | Rosh Yeshiva |
Other Post: | Member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah |
Birth Date: | 27 March 1929 |
Birth Place: | Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine |
Death Place: | Jerusalem, Israel |
Nationality: | Israeli |
Spouse: | Shulamit Ezrachi |
Alma Mater: | Hebron Yeshiva |
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: Blessings of Mordechai).