He was sent to learn in Volozhin yeshiva, where he quickly attached himself to his main teacher, Chaim Soloveitchik,[3] striving to completely adopt his unique Talmudic approach, which was the foundation of the popular Brisker method.

In May 1928, Boruch Ber traveled to America together with his son in law Reb Reuven Grozovsky to raise funds for his Yeshiva.

[7] “Only a God could have created such a person!” While in the US, he visited cities from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to Detroit and Boston as well as smaller Jewish enclaves such as Albany, NY and Harrisburg, PA.

He also delivered a lecture at the national convention of the Agudath Harabanim in Belmar, NJ[8] and at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary[9] In 1939, shortly before his death, he fled with the yeshiva to a suburb of Vilna,[10][11] hoping to escape from the Nazis and the communists.

[12] His daughter married Reb Reuven Grozovsky,[13] who was rosh hayeshiva of Torah Vodaath in Brooklyn and Bais Medrash Elyon in Monsey His nephew was Talmudical Rabbi Chaim Zimmerman of the Hebrew Theological College.