Torah Temimah
Karlin (Pinsk) · 1904
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Baruch HaLevi Epstein (Torah Temimah)
Baruch HaLevi Epstein (Torah Temimah)
1860 CE–1942 CE · Modern · Bobruisk
Barukh HaLevi Epstein was a Lithuanian Jewish scholar, exegete, and author of the early 20th century. Born in Pinsk, he was the son of R. Yechiel Michel Epstein (author of the Aruch HaShulchan) and came from a notable rabbinic family. He is best known for his Torah Temimah, a verse-by-verse anthology of Talmudic and midrashic comment on the Torah with careful source attribution. Epstein was also a prolific author of works on Jewish thought and practice. He lived through a period of significant upheaval in Eastern European Jewish life and devoted himself to scholarly and educational pursuits, seeking to preserve and transmit Jewish learning in an era of rapid change.
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Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, who wrote the Aruch HaShulchan, was his father, and the Netziv (Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin) his uncle; his birthplace was Bobruisk, the year 1860.
About Bobruisk
Bobruisk, a city in central Belarus on the Berezina River, had a large Jewish community -- a majority of the city's population in the nineteenth century -- and was a center of both Lithuanian Torah scholarship and Chabad chasidut. The Torah scholar Rabbi Baruch HaLevi Epstein, author of the Torah Temimah, was associated with the town.
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Netziv, Chaim Brisker, Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Avraham Dov Ber Kahana Shapiro, Moshe Soloveichik
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Torah Temimah on Torahתורה תמימה על התורה
Pinsk · 1904