Ahron Dovid Burack
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 Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) near Kaunas and at the Telshe Yeshiva near Telsiai, where he was ordained by Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch.[2][1][3]
Rabbinical Positions
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]
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). [4]
Teaching
Rabbi Burack was appointed Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1919 and continued to serve until his death in 1960.[1] He was also a professor of Talmud and Homiletics at Yeshiva University. [4]
He was the author of פרחי אהרון Pirchei Aharon (Flowers of Aaron), two volumes of "homiletics and halacha" published in 1954.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7] 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).[7]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b c "Dr. Aaron D. Burack, 68, Dies; Professor at Yeshiva University", New York Times, 8 October 1960.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
External links
- Guide to the Aaron David Burack Papers, Yeshiva University Archives
- Archive of Rabbi Aharon Dovid Burack's Shiurim (Lessons), YUTorah Online
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