Barukh HaLevi Epstein was a Lithuanian scholar who is best known for his popular Torah commentary, Torah Temimah. The son of R. Yechiel Michel Epstein (author of Arukh HaShulchan), he was a prodigious learner and a student at the Volozhin Yeshiva, where he studied with his illustrious uncle, R. Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin. Though he received rabbinic ordination, he had no desire to work as a rabbi and instead became an accountant and a banker in Pinsk. When the dire financial situation of Pinsk during WWI made it impossible for him to concentrate on his Talmud studies, he wrote a four volume memoir entitled Mekor Barukh, which reflects on many of the greatest Jewish figures of the 19th century. Part of the memoir was translated into English and published under the title, "My Uncle, the Netziv." He also wrote Tosefot Beracha, insights on the weekly Torah portion and Barukh SheAmar, a commentary on the daily liturgy.
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