Ahron Dovid Burack - Biography

Rabbi Ahron Dovid Burack (also known as Aaron David or Ahron David, אהרן דוד בוראק) was born in Popelan (now Papile), Lithuania, in 1892 or 1893 to Rabbi Chaim Natan Burack and Basse Gittel Gibberman. He studied at several yeshivot in Europe before immigrating to the U.S. in 1914. In 1917, the Orthodox Jewish synagogue Ohel Moshe Chevra Tehilim in New York granted him a lifetime contract to serve as rabbi of the congregation. Rabbi Burack became Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1919. Rabbi Burack was the author of Pirchei Aharon (Flowers of Aaron), two volumes of "homiletics and halacha". He died on October 7, 1960, during the Sukkot holiday, and was buried in Jerusalem.

The Pirchei Aharon Yeshiva, part of the religious-Zionist Bnei Akiva network of educational institutions, was founded in 1960. It was the very first yeshiva high school to be incorporated as part of the city's public school system, which eventually became the model for municipal collaboration with Bnei Akiva in other cities nationwide. The yeshiva has an American connection, as well, as it is named after a well-known two-volume halachic work written by Rabbi Ahron Dovid Burack (1892-1960), who was dean of the rabbinical seminary affiliated with New York's Yeshiva University. The Ohel Moshe Chevra thilim Shul is now at 849 Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. It was re-founded in 1970. http://www.ypa.co.il/

External links

• Guide to the Aaron David Burack Papers, Yeshiva University Archives