He was born on February 5, 1917 (13th of Shevat, 5677) in Zhetl, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus).

"[4] The rabbi and his wife fled Europe at the start of World War II, via Shanghai, and made their way to the United States.

In the Telzer tradition, Rabbi Sorotzkin extended his sphere of activities to include even more areas of communal responsibility, such as working for Chinuch Atzmai, Torah Umesorah[2] and Agudath Israel of America where he served as one of the youngest member of its Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah - Council of Torah Sages.

[6] His sons include Rabbi Yitzchok Sorotzkin, dean of the Telz Yeshiva and Mesivta of Lakewood, New Jersey.

Many of his lectures on Talmud were posthumously published by his children under the title Sefer Habinah V’habrachah.