{{Short description|Talmudist}} {{Infobox Jewish leader | honorific-prefix = Rabbi | name = Abba Berman<br>אבא ברמן | honorific-suffix = | title = | image = | caption = | synagogue = | synagogueposition = | yeshiva = Yeshivas Iyun HaTalmud, Yeshivas Knesses Yitzchok of Chadera-Kiryat Sefer | yeshivaposition = Rosh yeshiva | organisation = | organisationposition = | began = | ended = | predecessor = | successor = | rabbi = | rebbe = | kohan = | hazzan = | rank = | other_post = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = Abba Mordechai Berman | birth_date = Tu BiShvat 1919 | birth_place = Łódź, Poland | death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|5|12|1919}} | death_place = | yahrtzeit = 3 Iyar, 5765 | buried = | nationality = | denomination = Haredi Judaism | residence = | dynasty = | parents = | father = Shaul Yosef Berman | mother = | spouse = Itka Greenberg | children = | occupation = | profession = | alma_mater = | semicha = | signature = }} '''Abba Mordechai Berman''' ({{Langx|he|אבא מרדכי ברמן}}; 1919–2005) was a Talmudist and rosh yeshiva (dean of studies) of Yeshivas Iyun HaTalmud.

== Early life == Berman was born on Tu BiShvat 5679 (January 14/15, 1919)<ref>Fred Reiss, ''The Standard Guide to the Jewish and Civil Calendars'', 1986; Berman House, West Orange, NJ; page: "Civil year 1919"</ref> in Łódź, Poland, to Shaul Yosef Berman, rosh yeshiva of Toras Chesed in Lodz.<ref name="SY1">{{cite web|url=http://www.chareidi.org/archives5766/achrei/ACH66features.htm|title=We Moved During Bava Kama - HaRav Abba Berman zt"l His First Yahrtzeit - 3 Iyar |last=Berelson |first=Refael |date=3 May 2006 |website=www.chareidi.org|publisher=Dei'ah veDibur |access-date=18 September 2019}}</ref>

Following his bar mitzvah at age thirteen, Berman studied in Yeshivas Mir where he became close to the ''mashgiach ruchani'' (dean of students), Yerucham Levovitz.<ref>[http://www.jewish.by/legacy/mir/ The Legacy of Mir] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013024452/http://www.jewish.by/legacy/mir/ |date=October 13, 2011 }}</ref> He was a study partner of Nachum Partzovitz.<ref name="Seventh">Staff. (25 April 2012) [https://matzav.com/rav-abba-berman-ztl-on-his-seventh-yahrtzeit-today-3-iyar/ "Rav Abba Berman zt”l, On His Seventh Yahrtzeit, Today, 3 Iyar"], ''Matzav.com''. Retrieved 5 August 2019.</ref>

== World War II == Along with most of the student body of the Yeshivas Mir, Berman fled to Shanghai during World War II to escape being murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

== New York City == Berman eventually migrated to the United States where he became one of the founding members of the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, where he married Itka Greenberg.<ref name="Gedolim"> [http://www.chinuch.org/Iyyar.php "Gedolim Yahrtzeits"], ''Chinuch.org''</ref> Berman established Yeshivas Iyun HaTalmud on Beach 17th Street in Far Rockaway, Queens.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leimanlibrary.com/far_rockaway_postcards/far_rockaway_postcards_13.html|title=The Leiman Library|website=www.leimanlibrary.com|access-date=28 June 2018}}</ref>

== Land of Israel == After several years, Berman emigrated to Israel and re-established Yeshivas Iyun HaTalmud in Bnai Brak. The yeshiva relocated to Jerusalem, then finally to the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Sefer in the West Bank. In his final years he served as rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Knesses Yitzchok of Chadera-Kiryat Sefer.<ref name="SY1"/>

== Death == He died on May 12, 2005, corresponding to the 3rd of Iyar, 5765. His Talmudic lectures were published posthumously under the title "Iyun HaTalmud" (עיון התלמוד).

Berman and his wife had six daughters.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Dean At Torat Moshe Yeshiva, Murdered In Har Nof |url=https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2014/11/18/rabbi-moshe-twersky-dean-at-torat-moshe-yeshiva-murdered-in-har-nof/ |work=Jewish Business News|date=18 November 2014|access-date=18 September 2019 }}</ref>

== Notable students == * Chaim Malinowitz (1952 &ndash; 2019), rabbi in Ramat Beit Shemesh and editor of the Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=BD'E – Harav Chaim Zev Malinowitz, Zt"l |url= https://hamodia.com/2019/11/21/bde-harav-chaim-zev-malinowitz-ztl/|work=Hamodia|date=21 November 2019|access-date=16 December 2019}}</ref> * Yerucham Olshin, rosh yeshiva in Beth Medrash Govoha * Yisroel Eliyahu Weintraub, kabbalist

== Publications == *Shiurei Iyun HaTalmud, on Seder Kodshim *Shiurei Iyun HaTalmud, on Seder Nashim *Shiurei Iyun HaTalmud, on Seder Nezikin *Shiurei Gittin

== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725104343/http://shiurim.btya.org/cgi-bin/buildindex2.py?shiur=iyun Shiurim of Rabbi Abba Berman] * [http://www.chareidi.org/archives5766/emor/EMR66features2.htm Extended Obituary of Rabbi Abba Berman]

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