Pesach Eliyahu Falk

Pesach Eliyahu Falk (1943 – 20 January 2020) was an English Haredi rabbi and posek. He was well known for his works on Jewish law concerning the laws of modesty and Shabbos.

Biography Falk was born in Manchester, England in 1943 to Avraham Tzvi and Sarah, both Holocaust survivors. He studied at the Manchester and Sunderland yeshivas, and later at the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem under Rabbi Berel Soloveitchik. He married Esther Steinhaus, daughter of Shraga Steinhaus of Gateshead, and relocated to Gateshead where he studied in the Gateshead Kolel.

After several years, Falk began teaching at the Gateshead Seminary, where he delivered lectures on the laws of Shabbos and modesty and hashkafa. He also taught at Gateshead Yeshiva, giving classes on the laws of Shabbos and blessings, as well as at the Beis Chaya Rochel seminary. Over the course of a week, he would deliver on average 25 lectures. and has sold over 100,000 copies in five languages.

Family Falk had 14 children. Another sister is married to Dayan AD Dunner, a prominent rabbi and posek in Stamford Hill, London.

Works Modesty: An Adornment for Life (1998). Modesty: An Adornment for Life: Educational Diagrams for the Use of Women and Girls (Supplement; 1998) Modesty: An Adornment For Life: Day By Day (two volumes) Chosson and Kallah during their Engagement (2001), Hilchos Shabbos L'maaseh (Hebrew; 2015)