Rabbi Braun was raised in Woodmere, Long Island and was a student in the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway through high school.

He spent his next years studying at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, in Jerusalem by Rabbi Meir Halevi Soloveitchik, and in Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch 770.

Rabbinically ordained in Israel by Rabbi Yeruslavsky, Rabbi Braun is currently a lecturer at various yeshivos and seminaries in Jerusalem, and gives lectures on Chassidic thought in North America, Israel, Europe and the Far East.

Rabbi Braun can be reached at shmuelbraun@gmail.com.