Yitzchok Ezrachi

Rabbi Yitzchok Ezrachi
Rabbi Ezrachi at Mir Yeshiva on Purim 2011.
Title	Rosh Yeshiva in Mir
Personal
Born	Yitzchok Ezrachi
Religion	Judaism
Nationality	Israeli
Spouse	daughter of Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz
Denomination	Haredi
Position	Rov
Synagogue	Shul in Mattesdorf
Position	Rosh yeshiva
Yeshiva	Mir yeshiva (Jerusalem)
Residence	Jerusalem, Israel

Yaakov Yitzchok Ezrachi (Hebrew: יצחק אזרחי; born August 1933) is a Rosh Yeshiva (dean) at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Biography

Ezrachi was born in Jerusalem to Yisrael Ezrachi and Hinda the daughter of Baruch Shlom, a graduate of the Knesses Yisrael Yeshiva in Slobodka who served as a rabbi in South Africa and was the grandson of Uri David Apiryon, rabbi of Žagarė in Lithuania and author of the book Apiryon David. He studied at the Mir Yeshiva.

Since 1979, he has serves as one of the rosh yeshivas of the Mir Yeshiva, next to Eliezer Yehuda Finkel.

Family

Ezrachi is a son-in-law of Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz, also a former Rosh Yeshiva at the Mirrer Yeshiva. Ezrachi's brother was Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, another prominent Haredi rabbi.

External links

• Audio: Talmudic Lectures by Rabbi Yitzchok Ezrachi
• Audio: Rosh Chodesh Elul in Yeshivas Mir (5768)
• Video: Ezrachi delivering a lecture on Sukkos 2009 in Mir Yeshiva (Part 1, Part 2)