Ephraim Greenblatt


Rabbi Ephraim Greenblatt was a halachic authority in the United States, and at the end of his life in Jerusalem. He was famous for his many halachic answers.

Biography

Greenblatt was born in 1932 to Rabbi Avraham Baruch and Aliza Greenblatt, the oldest of eleven children. His grandfathers were Yitzchak Greenblatt and Chanoch Birenstock. The former was from Brisk and the latter from Lodz.
Poverty, being the oldest of 11 children, and a suggestion from his father's father brought him to America and Rav Feinstein's Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem ; he also concurrently served as rabbi of a small congregation.
In 1952, when Rav Moshe Feinstein was asked by the Memphis community to provide someone to help strengthen their community, Greenblatt was sent. He served there for 58 years as a local rabbi, Av Beit Din, Rosh Yeshiva, Rosh Kollel, educator, shochet and mohel, at which point he returned to Israel, three years before his death.

Family

His wife Miriam died in 2002. They are survived by two sons, both rabbis, and three daughters. He saw grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Works