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Ahron Dovid Burack (also known as Aaron David or Ahron David, אהרן דוד בוראק) (1892–October 1960) was a Lithuanian-American rabbi and rosh yeshivah.

Early life and education

Ahron Dovid Burack was born in Popelan (now Papile) in Kovno Governorate, Lithuania, in 1892[1] or 1893[2] to Rabbi Chaim Natan Burack and Basse Gittel Gibberman. As a young man in Lithuania, he studied at the Telshe Yeshiva near Telsiai and the Slobodka Yeshiva (see Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)) near Kaunas.[1][3]

Rabbinical and Rosh Yeshiva Positions in New York

Rabbi Burack immigrated with his family to the United States in 1914.[3] Following his arrival, Ahron Dovid Burack became rabbi of Beit Hamedrish Etz Chaim Anshei Volozhin in New York City. 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.[2]

Rabbi Burack was a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, and was appointed Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1919. He continued to serve until his death in 1960.[1]

He was the author of פרחי אהרון Pirchei Aharon (Flowers of Aaron), two volumes of "homiletics and halacha" published in 1954.[4]

Yeshivat Pirchei Aharon

Burack died in New York on October 7, 1960, during the Sukkot holiday,[3] and was later buried in the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem.[5] 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.[6] 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).[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "YU Torah Online: Our Speakers: Rabbi Ahron Dovid Burack", http://www.yutorah.org/speakers/speaker.cfm?teacherId=80035, accessed 12 October 2008.
  2. ^ a b Sherman, Moshe D., Orthodox Judaism in America, Westport, Connecticut:Greenwood Press, 1996, pp.41-43. http://books.google.com/books?id=cgMCSrDxKGAC&pg=PA41&dq=burack&sig=ACfU3U2WBiPVbdqyqNVsVVP-Wc14hYAc8A#PPA42,M1 , accessed 12 October 2008.
  3. ^ a b c "Dr. Aaron D. Burack, 68, Dies; Professor at Yeshiva University", New York Times, 8 October 1960.
  4. ^ Burack, Aaron David, Pirchei Aharon, New York:Ch'M'O'L, 1954. http://books.google.com/books?id=eLQrAAAAIAAJ&q=ahron+dovid+burack&dq=ahron+dovid+burack&pgis=1 , accessed 12 October 2008.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ a b "YBA Pirchei Aharon celebrates 50th anniversary", AFYBA E-Newsletter 3(1), September 2010. Available online at http://www.afyba.org/newsletter/2010/september/ , accessed 06 December 2015.

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