Chaim Berlin

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Chaim Berlin (1832, Volozhin – 1912, Jerusalem) (Hebrew: חיים ברלין) was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865. He was the son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, and his younger half-brother (from his father's second marriage) was Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (choosing Bar-Ilan as the Hebraized version of "Berlin").

From 1889-1892 he lived in Volozhin, where he was a head of a rabbinical court. After this he was the rabbi of Kobrin (1892-1897) and of Elizavetgrad (since 1897). He left Russia in 1906 and settled in Jerusalem, where he was elected a chief rabbi of the Ashkenazi community.

Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, established in Brooklyn, New York in 1904, was eventually named for Rabbi Chaim Berlin in 1914.