Chaim Berlin

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Grave of Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Jerusalem.
Grave of Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Jerusalem.

Chaim Berlin (1832, Volozhin – 1912, Jerusalem) (חיים ברלין) was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865. He was the son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin.

From 1889-1892 he lived in Volozhin, Lithuania where he was a head of a rabbinical court. After that he was the rabbi of Kobrin (1892-1897) and of Elizavetgrad (from 1897).

He left Russia in 1906 and settled in Jerusalem, where he was elected as 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.

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