Boruch Shimon Schneerson
Boruch is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Boruch Ber Leibowitz, main student of Rabbi Chaim Brisker famed for his Talmudic lectures * Boruch Greenfeld, (1872–1956), rabbi and Torah scholar * Boruch Israel Dyner (1903–1979), Belgian–Israeli chess master *Boruch of Medzhybizh (1753–1811), the first major "rebbe" of the Hasidic movement to hold court in Mezhbizh and Beis Medrash *Marianne Boruch Marianne Boruch (born June 19, 1950) is an American poet whose published work also includes essays on poetry, sometimes in relation to other fields (music, visual art, ornithology, medicine, aviation, etc.) and a memoir about a hitchhiking trip t ...

Boruch Ber Leibowitz
Boruch Ber Leibowitz ( yi, ברוך בער לייבאוויץ he, רב ברוך דוב ליבוביץ, Boruch Dov Libovitz; 1862 – November 17, 1939, known as Reb Boruch Ber, was a rabbi famed for his Talmudic lectures, particularly in that they were rooted styled in the method of his teacher Chaim Soloveitchik. He is known for leading Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchak in Slabodka and Kaminetz. Biography Boruch Dov Leibowitz was born in Slutsk and was known as a prodigy at a very young age. He was sent to learn in Volozhin yeshiva, where he quickly attached himself to his main teacher, Chaim Soloveitchik, striving to completely adopt his unique Talmudic approach, which was the foundation of the popular Brisker method. He then married the daughter of Abraham Isaac Zimmerman, whom he succeeded as rabbi of Halusk. He also served as a pulpit rabbi for other communities. In 1904 he was appointed head of the Kneseth Beis Yitzchak Yeshiva in Slobodka. During World War I Leibowi ...
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Boruch Greenfeld
Boruch Greenfeld, (1872–1956), was a rabbi and Torah scholar. Born in Humenne, Slovakia (then Zemplén County, Kingdom of Hungary), Greenfield studied in Kisvárda under Moshe Greenwald. He married Rivkah Weinberger in 1891 in Stropkov where he founded a small yeshiva. Later he became the dayan (rabbinic judge) of Shebesh, Potneck, and Hermenshtat. In 1923 he immigrated to the United States where he was a rabbi in several Pennsylvania cities and then in New York City, first in the Bronx and then the Lower East Side. In 1935 he moved to Palestine and became one of the leaders of the Edah HaChareidis The Charedi Council of Jerusalem ( he, העדה החרדית, ''haEdah haCharedit'', Ashkenazi pronunciation: ''ha-Aideh Charaidis'' or ''ha-Eido ha-Chareidis''; "Congregation of God-Fearers") is a large Haredi Judaism, Haredi Judaism, Jewish comm .... He had five children that reached adulthood. The oldest, Mariam, her husband Nusen Baumhaft, and 14 of their 15 children were mur ...
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Boruch Israel Dyner
Boruch Israël Dyner (27 September 1903 – 13 February 1979) was a Belgian–Israeli chess master. Born in Poland, he moved to Belgium. Dyner won thrice Belgian Chess Championship in 1932 (jointly with Victor Soultanbeieff), 1933 and 1935. He tied for 5-6th at Ostend 1936 (Erik Lundin won), tied for 4-7th at Brussels 1937 (BEL-ch, Alberic O'Kelly de Galway and Paul Devos won), took 8th at Ostend 1937 (Reuben Fine, Henri Grob and Paul Keres won), and took 6th at Namen 1938 (BEL-ch, O'Kelly won). After World War II, he settled in Israel where took 13th at Haifa / Tel Aviv 1958 (Samuel Reshevsky Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960 ... won).
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Boruch Of Medzhybizh
Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh (1753–1811), was a grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. Reb Boruch (known in his childhood as Reb Boruch'l, a Yiddish diminutive, and subsequently as ''Reb Boruch'l HaKadosh'') was the first major "rebbe" of the Hasidic movement to hold court in Mezhbizh in his grandfather's hometown and ''Beis Medrash'', which he inherited. Biography As recorded in the early Hasidic work ''Mekor Boruch'' (first published in 1880 from handwritten manuscripts), at the time of the Baal Shem Tov's death, Rabbi Pinchas of Korets and Rabbi Jacob Joseph of Polonoye, two of the Baal Shem Tov's closest disciples, reported to the Hasidim that the Baal Shem Tov had designated Reb Boruch as his successor, and instructed Reb Pinchas to take responsibility to carry out those wishes. Reb Boruch was only seven at the time of his grandfather's death, and was raised in Reb Pinchas' home, where the Baal Shem Tov's other close disciples and other leaders of the Hasidic movement visited regul ...
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