(SOROTZKIN, BARUCH).

R. Baruch Sorotzkin (1917-79) was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Telzer Yeshiva in Cleveland and among American Jewry’s foremost religious leaders. His revered father, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin, was the son-in-law of R. Eliezer Gordon, the founder of the Telzer Yeshiva. R. Baruch Sorotzkin studied under Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman in Baranovich, and then under Rabbi Baruch Ber Lebovitz in Kamenitz. In 1940, he married Rochel Bloch, daughter of the Telzer Rav and Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch and made their way to the United States. There, they joined his wife’s uncles (and his own cousins) Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch and Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz who had re-established the Telzer Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio. These autograph notes are especially important as R. Baruch was not only a pure Telzer, but as a disciple of R. Baruch Ber Lebovitz, he looked at Talmudic questions from many viewpoints.