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Rabbi Yechezkel Roth is known as the Karlsburger Rav. He is the author of Emek HaTeshuvah 7 Volumes, Chezkas Taharah Hilchos Niddah, Emek Shmaatsa Gemara, Chazon Yechezkel on Drush, Mishpat Ha’aretz on Shmittah, Keren HaTorah Ribbis, Mai Chanukah on Hilchos Chanukah and other works.
In 2016 he was Hospitalized at Maimonides Medical Center, After suffering a Major Heart Attack and was placed on a Respirator, the doctors saved his life by performing emergency procedures for over two hours in an effort to treat him without having to perform open heart surgery.
He experienced improvement in his condition, and was released from the Hospital, he was mekadeish his wife anew after he was released from the hospital, explaining that halachic based on the fact that he had been in critical condition, he was acting based on the p’sak of the Terumat HaDeshen, who maintains that if a person hovers between life and death and falls unconscious, he should perform a second kiddushin with his wife after he has recovered.
Prominent students
Roth, who is in his 80′s, leads a venerated Bais Horaah in Borough Park, Brooklyn, and is one of leading Poskim in the world today.
After many years of living in Israel, he took leave of the holy soil to settle in the US, where he eventually became recognized as one of the great Diaspora poskim. Years later, he began dividing his time between New York and Israel, where he secludes himself for weeks on end in Meron in the spiritual shadow at the most famous for the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
In 1972, the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum sought a Posek with uncompromising spiritual standards to serve on the Satmar beis din in Boro Park. The Rebbe’s spiritual requirements were daunting. Roth whose brilliance in Torah is surpassed only by his staunch principles that closely match those of Satmar, was immediately approved by Teitelbaum. He dispatched messengers to Roth's home in Israel requesting that Rav Roth relocate to Boro Park to disseminate Torah, and Roth assented. Since then, he has lived in New York, and although he is not officially affiliated with any group, he has close ties with the Satmar community.
Roth soon acquired a reputation as one of the most Prominent Poskim of the generation. He accepts the most complex sh’eilos from all sections of the Shulkhan Arukh, responding in lucid, understandable terms. His piskei halachah are studied and analyzed in batei medrash l’hora’ah throughout the world, and some of his response to personal status and family issues have ended months and even years of halachic debate where other dayanim were unwilling to take responsibility for such sensitive rulings.