and was known a prodigy

Child prodigy

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 while at a very young age. He was sent to learn in Volozhin yeshiva

Volozhin yeshiva

The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as Etz Chaim Yeshiva, was a prestigious Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russia, . It was founded by Rabbi Chaim Itzkovitz, a student of the famed Vilna Gaon, and trained several generations of scholars, rabbis, and leaders...

. After having a difficult time conflicting with the methods of the Rosh Yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva

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, he adopted the Talmudic approach of Chaim Brisker.

He then married the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Zimmerman, whom he succeeded as Rabbi of Halusk. He also served as a pulpit Rabbi for other communities. In 1904 he was appointed head of the Kneseth Beis Yitzchak Yeshiva in Slobodka. During World War I

World War I

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 he had to leave Slabodka and relocated the yeshiva to Minsk

Minsk

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 and then to Kremenchug and Vilna

Vilnius

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. In 1926 he re-established the yeshiva in Kaminetz, where it continued to attract hundreds of students for the next 13 years. In 1939, shortly before his death, he fled with the yeshiva to a suburb of Vilna, hoping to escape from the Nazis and the communists. He is buried at the Zaretcha cemetery, Vilna.

Works

• Birkas Shmuel (The Blessing of Shmuel), his magnum opus
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  , named in memory of his father, Shmuel Lebowitz. This work includes many otherwise unrecorded teachings of Rabbi Chaim Brisker as well as Reb Baruch Ber's novel understandings of Torah
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   topics on the Talmud
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• Shiurei Reb Baruch Ber (Lectures of Reb Boruch Ber) - recorded and published by his students.