Bnei Brak Yeshiva announce death of Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker z"l

Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker, aged 83, passed away early on Friday, according to Israeli media reports.

Rabbi Weisbecker was the head of the Beit Mattityahu Yeshiva in Bnei Brak as well as a member of the Council of Great Torah Sages (Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah).

The Council of Great Torah Sages is a supreme rabbinical policy-making council of the Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah, which make up United Torah Judaism in the Knesset.

The revered rabbi's cause of death is still uncertain.

The life of Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker 

Born in 1940 in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker later moved to Bnei Brak to study at the Ponevezh Yeshiva, where he was a student of great rabbinical scholars such as Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach and Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky. Rabbi Baruch married Sara Lea Drabkin in the early 1960s and is survived by her.

According to a Haredi media source, he later began his career as a Rabbi at the Kol Torah Yeshiva located in the Baiyt Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem, and following his beginnings there, he became the founder of two yeshivas. 

Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker was known to be dedicated to the spiritual development of his students. As a leading figure in the Hardei community, he took a more stringent approach to his teachings—encouraging his students to pursue Torah study and avoid distractions such as cell phones. 

His position as head of the Beit Mattityahu Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, in addition to his role as a member of the Council of Great Torah Sages, is notable, as it is considered to be a prestigious school in the Haredi community. 

In 2019, Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker took a leave from the yeshiva due to severe back pain, and it was later discovered that he had a tumor. However, prior to his passing, he had undergone surgery to remove it.