[לעיברית, ראו למטה] By Dr. Gil Dekel. Rabbi Efraim was born circa 1780 in the city of Tykocin (Tiktin), not far from the county Bialystok, to his father Rabbi Zeev Yehuda[1] and his mother, Gitel. From an early age he was known as a great scholar.[2] He served as a...