Boruch Greenfeld, (1872–1956), was a

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and

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scholar. Born in Humenne,

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(then

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), Greenfield studied in

Kisvárda Kisvárda (; german: Kleinwardein, yi, קליינווארדיין, Kleynvardeyn) is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary near the border of Slovakia and Ukraine. It is the 3rd largest town ...

under

Moshe Greenwald Moshe Greenwald (1853–1910), also spelled Grunwald, a rabbi in Hungary at the end of the 19th century. He was the rabbi of Chust, Hungary and progenitor of the Pupa Hasidic dynasty through his son Yaakov Yechezkiya. He was also the author of ...

. He married Rivkah Weinberger in 1891 in

Stropkov Stropkov (; rue, Стропков, hu, Sztropkó, , yi, סטראפקאוו) is a town in Stropkov District, Prešov Region, Slovakia. History The first written data about the town is from 1404, when Stropkov was already labeled as an ''oppid ...

where he founded a small

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. Later he became the

dayan (rabbinic judge) A beit din ( he, בית דין, Bet Din, house of judgment, , Ashkenazic: ''beis din'', plural: batei din) is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Biblical Land of Israel. Today, it ...

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

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and then the

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. In 1935 he moved to

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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 murdered in the Holocaust.

Sources

# ''Ohel Boruch'' # ''Moshian Shel Yisroel'', by Shloima Yankel Gelbman # # # ''Lkoros Hayhadus BTranselvany'' by Tzvi Yaakov Abraham pub. 1951

External links

Ivelt ר' ברוך גרינפעלד מהערמענשטאט ז"ל - י"א אייר תשט"ז
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