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Baruch Epstein

Rabbi Baruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein (1860-1941) (Hebrew: ???? ???? ???????) was a Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
n rabbi

Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
, best known for his Torah Temimah commentary on the Torah

Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
. He was the son of Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein

Yechiel Michel Epstein

Yechiel Michel Epstein , often called "the Aruch ha-Shulchan" , was a Rabbi and posek in Lithuania. His surname is often preceded by ha-Levi, as he descended from a family of Levites....
, rabbi of Novarodok and author of the work Arukh HaShulkhan.

ein grew up in Novarodok, where his father was the communal rabbi, but moved to the city of Pinsk

Pinsk

Pinsk , a town in Belarus, in the Polesia region, traversed by the river Pripyat River, at the confluence of the Strumen River and Pina rivers. The region is known as the Pinsk Marshes....
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.

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Rabbi Baruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein (1860-1941) (Hebrew: ???? ???? ???????) was a Lithuania

Lithuania

Rabbi

Torah

Yechiel Michel Epstein

Biography

Epstein grew up in Novarodok, where his father was the communal rabbi, but moved to the city of Pinsk

Pinsk

Ezras Torah

The Ezras Torah Fund was founded by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis in the summer of 1915. It was an outgrowth of the Central Relief Committee that was created to assist Orthodox Judaism in Europe during World War I....
from around 1924 until he was succeeded by Rav Henkin

Yosef Eliyahu Henkin

Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin was a prominent Orthodox Judaism rabbi in the United States.He was born in Belorussia, and studied at the Slutzker Yeshiva under Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer....
around the year 1925.

Although Epstein was a bookkeeper

Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the recording of the value of assets, liabilities, income, and expenses in the daybooks, journals, and ledgers, in which debit and credit entries are chronologically posted to record changes in value....
by profession, he had been a student at the Volozhin Yeshiva

Volozhin yeshiva

The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as Etz Chaim Yeshiva, was a yeshiva in the town of Volozhin , founded in 1803 by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, a student of the Vilna Gaon....
(under his uncle Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin

Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin

File:Netziv.gifRabbi Rabbi Naphtali Tzvi Judah Berlin was the Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuanian Jews....
) and authored a number of popular and scholarly works.

Works

Torah Temimah ("The Perfect Torah", a reference to Psalms 19:8) - a commentary on the Torah
Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
citing all quotes of a particular verse in the Oral Torah
Oral Torah

A term used to denote the legal and interpretative traditions which were transmitted Speech, and which were not written in the Torah. According to Rabbinic Judaism, the oral Torah, oral Law, or oral tradition was given by God orally to Moses in conjunction with the written Torah ....
(Talmud
Talmud

The Talmud is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Halakha, Jewish ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism....
or Midrash
Midrash

Midrash is a Hebrew language term referring to the not exact, but comparative method of exegesis of Biblical texts, which is one of four methods cumulatively called Pardes ....
), and giving textual explanations.
Baruch she-Amar ("Praised He Who Spoke", a reference to the opening paragraph of the Verses of Praise, daily morning prayers) - a commentary on the siddur
Siddur

A siddur is a Judaism prayer book, containing a set order of List of Jewish prayers and blessings. This article discusses how some of these prayers evolved, and how the siddur, as we know it today has developed....
(Jewish prayerbook).
Mekor Baruch ("Source of Blessing") - autobiographical work with notes on life in the Volozhin yeshiva and his uncle. Selections were translated as "My Uncle the Netziv" (see below).
Tosefet Beracha ("Added Blessing") - novellae on the Torah
Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....

Baruch Epstein

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