Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi (; 27 March 1929 – 26 October 2023) was an Israeli Haredi (ultra-orthodox) rabbi, and a leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews. He was the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Ateres Yisrael in Bayit Vegan in Jerusalem, and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah from the Degel HaTorah faction.
Rabbi Ezrachi was the son-in-law of Rabbi Meir Chodosh. In 1976, he started a yeshiva in Bayit Vegan called Ateres Yisroel which he moved to Modi'in in 2019.
He died on 26 October 2023, at the age of 94.
Ezrachi's brother is Rabbi Yitzchok Ezrachi, a Rosh Yeshiva at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Political views Ezrachi declared support for a halachic state, stating: "Yes, we want a halachic state! We want the honor of Heaven! We want sanctification of God's name! We do not want desecration of God's name!" "Live Broadcast of the Visit of Maran Sar HaTorah Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky Shlit”a to Rekhasim" (שידור ישיר ממסע מרן שר התורה שליט"א הגר"ח קנייבסקי שליט"א לרכסים), C-Live, [n.d.], https://www.c-live.co.il/archives/14266 Works Ezrachi wrote many volumes of commentary on Torah, Talmud, halacha (Jewish law), Jewish festivals, and thought, called Birkas Mordechai (Hebrew: Blessings of Mordechai).
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