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Baruch Sorotzkin (February 5, 1917 - February 10, 1979) was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders.¹ Sorotzkin was born on Monday February 5, 1917 (13th of Shevat, 5739) in Zhetl , Lithuania.² His father, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin was the town's rabbi . As a young man, Sorotzkin studied under Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman in Baranovich , and then under Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebovitz in Kamenitz . In 1940, Sorotzkin married Rachel Bloch, daughter of the Telzer Rav and Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch .³ Rabbi Sorotzkin and his wife fled Europe at the start of World War Two and made their way to the United States.⁴ There, they joined his wife's uncles (and his own cousins) Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz who had re-established the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio. 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. 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 Chinuch Atzmai , Torah Umesorah and Agudath lsrael 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, Mordechai Gifter left to head the Yeshiva in Israel. Sorotzkin died on Saturday, February 10, 1979. The Hebrew date - 13 Shevat - was the same date as his birthday. He is survived by three sons and three daughters. His daughter Rebetzin Rassia Busel died in March 1998. His sons, Rabbi Yitzchok Sorotzkin serves as dean of the Telz Yeshiva and Mesivta of Lakewood, New Jersey. Many of his lectures on Talmud have been posthumously published by his children. Sorotzkin's wife died in November 2006.⁵

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Rephoel Baruch Sorotzkin (February 5, 1917 - February 10, 1979) was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders. Sorotzkin was born on February 5, 1917 (13th of Shevat, 5739) in 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 Elchonon Wasserman in Baranovich , and then under Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebovitz in Kamenitz . In 1940, Sorotzkin married Rochel Bloch, daughter of the Telzer Rav and Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch . Rabbi Sorotzkin and his wife fled Europe at the start of World War II and made their way to the United States. There, they joined his wife's uncles (and his own cousins) Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz who had re-established the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Rephoel Baruch Sorotzkin (February 5, 1917 - February 10, 1979) was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders. He was born on February 5, 1917 (13th of Shevat , 5677) in 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 Elchonon Wasserman in Baranovich , and then under Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebovitz in Kamenitz . Sorotzkin was involved in the "tension" over visas needed to flee: the two factions were "those from Lithuanian versus Polish Yeshivot;" control of the Kobe committee was by "students from the Polish yeshivot." The rabbi and his wife fled Europe at the start of World War II, via Shanghai, and made their way to the United States. There, they joined his wife's uncles (and his own cousins) Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz who had re-established the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio. The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad Ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939-1945 .

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Rephoel Baruch Sorotzkin (February 5, 1917 - February 10, 1979) was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland and among American Jewry's foremost religious leaders. He was born on February 5, 1917 (13th of Shevat , 5677) in 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 Elchonon Wasserman in the Baranovich Yeshiva , and then under Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebovitz in Kamenitz . Sorotzkin was involved in the "tension" over visas needed to flee: the two factions were "those from Lithuanian versus Polish Yeshivot;" control of the Kobe committee was by "students from the Polish yeshivot." The rabbi and his wife fled Europe at the start of World War II, via Shanghai, and made their way to the United States. There, they joined his wife's uncles (and his own cousins) Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz who had re-established the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio. The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad Ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939-1945 .

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He was born on February 5, 1917 (13th of Shevat , 5677) in 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 Elchonon Wasserman in the Baranovich Yeshiva , and then under Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebovitz in Kamenitz . Sorotzkin was involved in the "tension" over visas needed to flee: the two factions were "those from Lithuanian versus Polish Yeshivot;" control of the Kobe committee was by "students from the Polish yeshivot." The rabbi and his wife fled Europe at the start of World War II, via Shanghai, and made their way to the United States. There, they joined his wife's uncles (and his own cousins) Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz who had re-established the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio. The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad Ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939-1945 .

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