Baruch Sorotzkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Baruch Sorotzkin

Belarusian rabbi

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1917

Place of Birth: Dzyatlava, Belarus

Date of Death: 10-Feb-1979

Profession: rabbi

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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, 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. 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.