Yitzchok Ezrachi
Rabbi Yitzchok Ezrachi | |
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![]() Rabbi Ezrachi at Mir Yeshiva on Purim 2011. | |
Title | Rosh Yeshiva in Mir |
Personal | |
Born | Yitzchok Ezrachi |
Religion | Judaism |
Nationality | Israeli |
Spouse | Rivka Ezrachi, daughter of Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz[1] |
Denomination | Haredi |
Position | Rov |
Synagogue | Shul in Mattesdorf |
Position | Rosh yeshiva |
Yeshiva | Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem) |
Residence | Jerusalem, Israel |
Yaakov Yitzchok Ezrachi (Hebrew: יצחק אזרחי; born August 1933) is a Rosh Yeshiva (dean) at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.[1]
Early life and education
Ezrachi was born in Jerusalem to Yisrael Ezrachi and Hinda. His mother was the daughter of Baruch Shlom, a graduate of the Knesses Yisrael Yeshiva in Slobodka who served as a rabbi in South Africa and was the grandson of Uri David Apiryon, rabbi of Žagarė in Lithuania and author of the book Apiryon David. He studied at the Mir Yeshiva.
Career
Since 1979, he has served as one of the rosh yeshivas of the Mir Yeshiva, next to Eliezer Yehuda Finkel.[1]
In 2024, Ezrachi travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to speak about the Torah to an audience of seven thousand.[2]
Family
Ezrachi was married to Rivka, a daughter of Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz, also a former Rosh Yeshiva at the Mirrer Yeshiva.[1] Rivka died in 2019.[3]
Ezrachi's brother was Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, another prominent Haredi rabbi.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d Frankfurter, Yitzchok (1 October 2017). "A Visit to the Home of Rav Yitzchok & Rebbetzin Rivka Ezrachi // Remembering A Torah & Mussar Giant". Ami Magazine. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ Gold, Chaim (28 March 2024). "Unprecedented Achdus and Adulation as South American Jewry Participates in Largest Torah Event". The Jewish Link. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
the venerated senior Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yitzchok Ezrachi, rose to address the crowd. The adulation was palpable. Everyone understood that this nonagenarian Rosh Yeshiva had traveled literally across the world and the hemisphere at his advanced age just to give them chizuk
- ^ "BDE: Rebbetzin Rivka Ezrachi, A"h, Wife of Rav Yitzchok Ezrachi Of Yeshivas Mir-Yerushalayim". Baltimore Jewish Life. 13 January 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ "PHOTOS: Rav Yitzchok Ezrachi arrives in Lakewood ahead of Mir dinner". The Lakewood Scoop. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
External links
- Audio: Talmudic Lectures by Rabbi Yitzchok Ezrachi
- Audio: Rosh Chodesh Elul in Yeshivas Mir (5768)
- Video: Ezrachi delivering a lecture on Sukkos 2009 in Mir Yeshiva (Part 1, Part 2)
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- Mir, Belarus
- Jerusalem, Israel
- New York, United States
- Modi'in Illit, Israel
- Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (b. 1879)
- Avraham Kalmanowitz
- Eliyahu Boruch Kamai
- Yeruchom Levovitz
- Yechezkel Levenstein
- Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim
- Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz
- Avrohom Tiktinsky
- Chaim Leib Tiktinsky
- Shmuel Tiktinsky
- Asher Arieli
- Binyomin Carlebach
- Yitzchok Ezrachi
- Binyomin Beinush Finkel
- Eliezer Yehuda Finkel
- Eliezer Yehuda Finkel
- Eliyahu Boruch Finkel
- Gedaliah Finkel
- Nosson Tzvi Finkel
- Nochum Partzovitz
- Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz
- Avraham Kalmanowitz
- Shmuel Berenbaum
- Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz
- Avraham Yaakov Nelkenbaum
- Ezriel Erlanger
- Eliezer Ginsburg
- Osher Dov Berenbaum
- Osher Eliyahu Kalmanowitz
- Dovid Kviat
- Shmuel Brudny
- Elya Brudny
- Aryeh Finkel
- Rabbi Noam Alon
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