Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi

Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi was an Israeli Haredi rabbi, and a leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews. He was the Rosh Yeshiva of Ateres Yisrael in Bayit Vegan in Jerusalem, and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah from the Degel HaTorah faction.
Rabbi Ezrachi was the son-in-law of Rabbi Meir Chodosh. In 1976, he started a yeshiva in Bayit Vegan called Ateres Yisroel which he moved to Modi'in in 2019.
He died on 26 October 2023, at the age of 94.
Ezrachi's brother is Rabbi Yitzchok Ezrachi, a Rosh Yeshiva at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Political views

Ezrachi declared support for a halachic state, stating: "Yes, we want a halachic state! We want the honor of Heaven! We want sanctification of God's name! We do not want desecration of God's name!"

Works

Ezrachi wrote many volumes of commentary on Torah, Talmud, halacha, Jewish festivals, and thought, called Birkas Mordechai.