YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rosh Yeshivas Ateres Yisrael and Zakein Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, Hagaon HaRav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi Zt”l, at the age of 94.

HaRav Ezrachi has been ill and hospitalized for the past four months and was recently on a respirator but there was an improvement in his condition in the past week. However, on Thursday morning, his condition worsened. The bitter news of his petirah at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, especially during such a difficult time for Klal Yisrael, left the Torah world in deep aveilus.

HaRav Ezrachi was a leading figure in harbatzas Torah and yiras Shamayim for decades. He was a Maggid Shiur for over 60 years in Yeshiva Knesses Chizkiyahu in Kfar Chassidim, in Chevron Yeshiva, and later served as the Rosh Yeshiva of Ateres Yisrael in Bayit Vegan in Yerushalayim [which later moved to Modiin Illit], and was a senior member of the Moetzes Gedolei Yisrael of Degel Hatorah and a member of the Va’ad HaYeshivos.

He was a tremendous Gaon and wrote many Seforim on Torah, Gemara, Halacha, and Machshava, called Birkas Mordechai (ברכת מרדכי‎).

He was born in Petach Tikva to his father and mother (Rav Yisroel and Hinda) and learned in Chevron Yeshiva as a bochur.

His wife, Rebbetzin Shulamis Ezrachi A”H, was niftar in December of 2022 and HaRav Ezrachi, z’tl, will be buried next to her, on Har HaZeisim. She was a daughter of the famed Chevron mashgiach HaGaon HaRav Meir Chodosh Zt”l.

HaRav Ezrachi, z’tl, left one son, four daughters, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren – all following in the path of Torah and mitzvos. His only son, HaGaon HaRav Ben-Tzion Ezrachi, who serves as a Rosh Mesivta and the Nasi of Ateres Yisrael, received the bitter news of his father’s petirah while in Mexico, where he had traveled for the benefit of the yeshivah.

The levaya will be delayed until his return and has been scheduled to take place at 9 a.m. on Friday morning, leaving from the home of the Rosh Yeshivah, z’tl, in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Yerushalayim. HaRav Ben-Tzion is scheduled to land in Israel at 7 a.m. on Friday morning.

The Rosh Yeshivah’s mitah was brought from the hospital to his home in Bayit Vegan, where his talmidim lit candles and burst into bitter crying.

‘כל בית ישראל יבכו את השריפה אשר שרף ה’

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