Baruch Dov Povarsky

Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky was born on August 17, 1931[1][2] in Kletsk, Poland, now part of Belarus. His father was Rabbi Dovid Povarsky. When he was three months old, his family moved to Baranovich where his father got a teaching position in the yeshiva of Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, Yeshivas Ohel Torah. When he was ten, his family emigrated to Eretz Yisrael, then the British Mandate of Palestine, where he studied at Yeshivas Ohr Hatalmud and Yeshivas Achei Temimim. In 1943, he went to learn at the Chevron Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and after his father was appointed as rosh yeshiva in the Ponevezh Yeshiva, he went to study there.[3]

In 1954, after his marriage to Leah Kaplan (daughter of Rabbi Yisrael Chaim Kaplan), Rabbi Povarsky was appointed maggid shiur in Ponovezh, where he taught under the leadership of his father, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach, and Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky. After the three roshei yeshiva passed away, Rabbi Povarsky and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein became the roshei yeshiva. His students published a summary of his classes, titles Shiurei HaGRaBaD Povarsky. Rabbi Povarsky is also a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah in Israel.

Yeshivas Ponovezh in Bnei Brak