Azriel Auerbach

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Azriel Auerbach

Azriel Auerbach (* 1938 in Jerusalem ; Hebrew עזריאל אוירבך) is an ultra-Orthodox rabbi and Posek . He is the son of Rabbi Schlomo Salman Auerbach and son-in-law of Joseph Schalom Elyashiv ; He was seen as the right hand of Elyashiv, who died in 2012, in matters of Halacha , Jewish law.

Auerbach was born in 1938 in the Jerusalem district of Scha'arei Chesed and married Leah Elyashiv (1938–2010), the fifth daughter of Joseph Elyashiv, in 1960; they have no offspring.

He is chairman of the rabbinical ultra-orthodox charity Vaad harabbanim .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Harav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv shlit "a. Chazaq.org