Ezriel Auerbach

Ezriel Auerbach was born in 1938 in Jerusalem

Ezriel Auerbach was born in 1938 in the Shaarei Hesed neighborhood of Jerusalem. He is the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and his brother was Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach.

As a child he studied at the Etz Chaim Talmud Torah and yeshiva. He later studied at the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak.

He married Leah, daughter of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, and the couple had no children. His father-in-law often referred halakhic questions to him and sent him on missions in matters of halakha and kashrut. He headed several Jerusalem yeshivas, among them the Amshinov and Torda yeshivas.

He serves as rabbi of the Chanichei HaYeshivos community in Beit Vegan, Jerusalem. He chairs the rabbinical committee for charity matters and heads the rabbinical board of United Hatzalah. After his brother died, he joined the Council of Torah Sages of Bnei Torah.

After his first wife died in 2010, he married Minna, widow of Rabbi Avraham Elyashiv, in 2012. In December 2024, after the death of Rabbi Asher Deutsch, he was appointed to lead the Jerusalem Faction.