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He was born in Horodok, present-day Belarus, in 1912.

He studied at the Baranovich Yeshiva, and then at the Mir Yeshiva. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Mir Yeshiva moved to Vilnius, Lithuania, before escaping to Kobe, Japan, and then onward to Shanghai in 1940, with the help of the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Chiune Sugihara. He then moved to the U.S.A., where he married the daughter of the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim, in Baltimore. In 1948, he moved to Montreal, after being appointed rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Merkaz HaTorah in the city. He led the yeshiva for twenty-four years, before founding Beis Medrash Merkaz HaTalmud, which he also led until moving to Jerusalem in 2006. He passed away in Jerusalem in 2011.

Born in the town of Charmes, in the Vosges region of France, Maurice Barrès was one of the most influential intellectual figure of the French nationalist far-right at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries. A deputy in the Assemblée Nationale, a journalist, political writer and succesfull novelist, Barrès was one of the most well-known antisemitic figures in France, and a leader of the anti-dreyfusist movement during the antisemtici Dreyfus affaire.

The Bassarabier Hebrew Sick Benefit Association of Montreal was formally incorporated in 1922 with the mandate of assisting its members in case of sickness, accident, inability to work, reverses of fortune and death. The association would also grant assistance and aid to widowers, widows, children, or heirs of members, including funeral and cemetery benefits.