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{{Short description|Lithuanian rabbi (1892–1960)}}
'''Ahron Dovid Burack''' (also known as '''Aaron David''' or '''Ahron David'''; {{lang-he|אהרן דוד בוראק}}; 16 May 1892 – 7 October 1960) was a Lithuanian-American [[rabbi]] and [[rosh yeshivah]].
[[Image: Ahron_Dovid_Burack.jpg|thumb|right|150px| Rabbi Aaron David Burack]]
==Early life and education==
Ahron Dovid Burack was born in Popelan (now [[Papile]]) in [[Kovno Governorate]], [[Lithuania]], on 16 May 1892<ref name="whoswhojewry">Schwartz J., Kaye S.A., and Simons, J., eds. ''Who's Who in World Jewry''. (p. 149) Jewish Biographical Bureau. 1933.</ref><ref name="yubio">"YU Torah Online: Our Speakers: Rabbi Ahron Dovid Burack", http://www.yutorah.org/speakers/speaker.cfm?teacherId=80035, accessed 12 October 2008.</ref> to Chaim Natan Burack and Basse Gittel Gibberman.<ref name="whoswhojewry" /> As a young man in Lithuania, he studied at [[Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)]] near [[Kaunas]] and at the [[Telshe Yeshiva]] near [[Telsiai]], where he was ordained by Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch.<ref name="shermanbook">{{Cite book |last=Sherman |first=Moshe |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgMCSrDxKGAC&dq=burack&pg=PA42 |title=Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook |date=1996-05-14 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-313-24316-5 |language=en}}</ref>
==Rabbinical Positions==
Burack immigrated to the United States in 1913. Following his arrival, Ahron Dovid Burack became rabbi of Beit Hamedrish Etz Chaim Anshei Volozhin in New York City.<ref name="shermanbook"/>
In 1917, the [[Orthodox Jewish]] synagogue Ohel Moshe Chevra Tehilim in [[Brooklyn]], New York, granted Burack a lifetime contract to serve as rabbi of the congregation.<ref name="shermanbook"/>
Burack was an outspoken advocate for Jewish communal and Zionist causes. He was a leader of the [[Union of Orthodox Rabbis]] of the United States and Canada and the [[Religious Zionists of America]] (Hapoel Hamizrachi), and was also involved with the [[United Jewish Appeal]], the [[Jewish National Fund]] and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society ([[HIAS]]).<ref name="jta_burack_dies_during_services">"Prof. Burack, Orthodox Leader, Dies During Synagogue Services", Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 10 October 1960. Available online at http://www.jta.org/1960/10/10/archive/prof-burack-orthodox-leader-dies-during-synagogue-services , accessed 06 December 2015.</ref> He was among a group of rabbis who implored President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] and the [[United States Congress]] to help rescue European Jews during [[World War II]], reading a petition as part of a demonstration on the steps of the [[United States Capitol]] Building.<ref name="fdr_jews">Breitman, Richard, and Lichtman, Allan J. ''FDR and the Jews''. (p. 230) Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University. 2013.</ref>
==Teaching and Writing==
Burack was appointed Rosh Yeshiva at the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]] in 1919 and continued to serve until his death in 1960.<ref name="yubio"/> He was also a professor of Talmud and Homiletics at [[Yeshiva University]].<ref name="jta_burack_dies_during_services" />
He was the author of פרחי אהרון ''Pirchei Aharon'' (''Flowers of Aaron''), two volumes of "[[homiletics]] and [[halacha]]" published in 1954.<ref name="pircheiaharon">{{Cite book |last=Burack |first=Aaron David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLQrAAAAIAAJ&q=ahron+dovid+burack |title=פרחי אהרן ... |date=1954 |language=he}}</ref>
==Yeshivat Pirchei Aharon==
Burack died in New York on October 7, 1960, during the [[Sukkot]] holiday,<ref name="nytimes_obit">"Dr. Aaron D. Burack, 68, Dies; Professor at Yeshiva University", ''New York Times'', 8 October 1960.</ref> and was later buried in the [[Sanhedria Cemetery]] in Jerusalem.<ref name="jta_burial">"Remains of Rabbi Burack, Leader of U.S. Orthodox Jewry, Buried in Israel", Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 15 March 1962. Available online at http://www.jta.org/1962/03/15/archive/remains-of-rabbi-burack-leader-of-u-s-orthodox-jewry-buried-in-israel , accessed 06 December 2015.</ref> Following his death in 1960, a secondary school in Kiryat Shmuel, [[Haifa]], Israel, was named Yeshivat Pirchei Aharon in tribute to Rabbi Ahron Dovid Burack's memory and his work.<ref name="yba_50">"YBA Pirchei Aharon celebrates 50th anniversary", AFYBA E-Newsletter 3(1), September 2010. Available online at http://www.afyba.org/newsletter/2010/september/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032154/http://www.afyba.org/newsletter/2010/september/ |date=2016-03-04 }} , accessed 06 December 2015.</ref> The school, which provides both secular and Torah education, is affiliated with the [[Bnei Akiva]] movement. Notable alumni of Yeshivat Pirchei Aharon include Israel's former Ashkenazi [[Chief Rabbi]] [[Yona Metzger]] and past mayors of the cities of Jerusalem ([[Uri Lupolianski]]) and [[Akko]] (Acre) (Shimon Lankry).<ref name="yba_50" />
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