Baruch Ber Lebowitz

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Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebowitz (1870-1940) (Hebrew: ברוך בער ליבוביץ) was a main student of Rabbi Chaim Brisker and was famed for his Talmudic lectures.

Reb Baruch Ber, as he is called by his students and followers, was born in Slutsk and was known a prodigy while at a very young age. He was sent to learn in Volozhin yeshiva. After having a difficult time conflicting with the methods of the Rosh Yeshiva, he adopted the Talmudic approach of Chaim Brisker. He then married and served as a pulpit Rabbi for various communities. After World War I, he was appointed as the Rosh Yeshiva of Kaminetz. Among those Rabbis ordained by Reb Baruch Ber include Rabbi Baruch Epstein and Rabbi Joshua Klavan, latter to be the Chief Rabbi of Washington, D.C.. Rabbi Reuvain Grozovsky married the daughter of Reb Baruch Ber.

[edit] His works

• Reb Baruch Ber's magnum opus was called Birkas Shmuel im memory of his father, Shmuel Lebowitz. This work includes many unrecorded teachings of Rabbi Chaim Brisker as well as Reb Baruch Ber's novel understandings of Torah topics on Shas. This work is well accepted in all Yeshivas and is frequently quoted by most living Rosh Yeshivas.

• The lectures of Reb Baruch Ber were recorded by his students and were published by them as Shiurei Reb Baruch Ber.