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'{{Infobox Jewish leader | honorific-prefix = | name =Baruch Epstein | honorific-suffix = | title =Rabbi | image = rabbi_baruch_epstein.jpg | caption = | synagogue =[[Ezras Torah Fund|Ezras Torah]] | synagogueposition =Menahel | yeshiva =[[Volozhin Yeshiva]] | yeshivaposition = | organisation = | organisationposition = | began = | ended = | predecessor = | successor =[[Yosef Eliyahu Henkin|Rav Henkin]] | rabbi = | rebbe = | kohan = | hazzan = | rank = | other_post = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date =1860 | birth_place =[[Bobruisk|Bobruisk, Russian Empire]] | death_date ={{Death year and age|1941|1860}} | death_place =[[Pinsk|Pinsk, Russian Empire]] | buried = | nationality =Lithuanian | denomination = | residence = | dynasty = | parents =Rabbi [[Yechiel Michel Epstein]] | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession =Bookkeeper | alma_mater = | semicha = | signature = }} <!----------------End of Infobox---> '''Baruch Epstein''' or '''Baruch ha-Levi Epstein''' (1860&ndash;1941) ({{lang-he-n|ברוך הלוי אפשטיין}}) was a [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian Jewish]] [[rabbi]], best known for his ''[[Torah Temimah]]'' [[Bible commentary|commentary]] on the [[Torah]]. He was the son of Rabbi [[Yechiel Michel Epstein]], rabbi of Novarodok and author of the work ''[[Arukh HaShulkhan]]''. ==Biography== Epstein grew up in [[Novarodok]], where his father was the communal rabbi, but moved to the city of [[Pinsk]] after his marriage (daughter of Rabbi Elazar Moshe Horowitz) and lived there until his death, apart from a period from 1923 to 1926, which he spent in the [[United States|United States of America]] looking (unsuccessfully) for a rabbinic position. During this period he served as the first ''menahel'' (director) of [[Ezras Torah Fund|Ezras Torah]] from around 1924 until he was succeeded by [[Yosef Eliyahu Henkin|Rav Henkin]] around the year 1925. Although Epstein was a [[bookkeeping|bookkeeper]] by profession, he had been a student at the [[Volozhin Yeshiva]] under his uncle Rabbi [[Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin]] (who became his brother-in-law after being widowed and remarrying Epstein's sister). Epstein authored a number of popular and scholarly works which are still used widely. During the Nazi occupation of Pinsk, the Jewish hospital, where Rabbi Epstein was a patient was burned down, and he perished in the fire. ==Works== * ''[[Torah Temimah]]'' ("The Perfect Torah", a reference to Psalms 19:8) - a commentary on the [[Torah]] and the [[Five Megillot]] citing all quotes of a particular verse in the [[Oral Torah]] ([[Talmud]] or [[Midrash]]), 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) - Multiple volumes, including a commentary on the [[siddur]] (Jewish prayerbook), Passover Haggadah and Pirkei Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers). * ''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). * ''Mekor Baruch''- on the Jerusalem Talmud * ''Tosefet Beracha'' ("Added Blessing") - [[wikt:novellae|novellae]] on the [[Torah]] ==References== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20040605091433/http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/epstein.htm Great Leaders of our People: Rabbi Baruch HaLevi Epstein] *My Uncle the Netziv, [[Artscroll|Mesorah Publications Ltd]], [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York]], 1988. {{ISBN|0-89906-492-2}}. == External links == *[http://www.rabbisedley.com/tosbracha English translation of Tosefet Beracha (selections)] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070622041618/http://www.seforimonline.org/seforim5.html Hebrew original of Tosefet Beracha from Seforim Online] {{Volozhin Yeshiva}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Epstein, Baruch}} [[Category:1860 births]] [[Category:1941 deaths]] [[Category:Haredi rabbis in Europe]] [[Category:Levites]] [[Category:Bible commentators]]'