Rabbi Chaim Berlin was born in Volozhin in 1832. He was a son of famous Volozhin rosh-Yeshiva (1854-92) Naftali Tsvi Ieguda Berlin (known as Natsiv). His father gave Chaim a rabbinic education. Since 1865  Chaim Berlin was a Moscow rabbi. After this,  since  1889  he lived in Volozhin, and worked as the head of rabbinic court, since 1892 till 1897 he was rabbi in Kobrin, since 1897 - in  Elizavetgrad (today, Kirovograd).  In 1906 he left Russia Empire. He went to Jerusalem. In 1909 he was elected a chief rabbi of Askenasi community of Jerusalem. Rabbi Chaim Berlin died in 1912, in Jerusalem.  

 

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