Baruch Berliner was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, then Palestine, in 1942. His parents fled from the Nazi Regime in Germany in 1937. His mother, Charlotte, who grew up in Vienna, was a pianist, singer, and dancer and his father, Shabtai, was a lawyer and businessman, who participated as a pioneer in the development of agriculture inPalestine long before the state of Israel existed.

During this period, he finished school in Berlin, and academic studies in theoretical physics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland where he achieved a PhD in mathematics. He was a Senior Actuary at the Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich, which is the largest reinsurance company in the world, and an invited lecturer at many different universities internationally. He has published two scientific books, and around 70 papers on actuarial studies and finance. His book, The Limits of Insurability of Risks, became a bestseller.

In 1992 in Israel, he met the excellent musician Nachum Slutzker and returned to intensive musical study. He showed Slutzker his notebook and this became the trigger for composing the symphonic poem and musical project "Genesis". In the 30 years of cooperation that followed, Berliner and Slutzker became close friends. In addition, Slutzker became the producer advisor and many times also the initiator of diversified joint projects. The creation of "Genesis" was for Berliner the realization of a dream.

He succeeded in interweaving two desires close to his heart: faith and music. "Genesis" for narrator and orchestra was already performed in 19 countries. In every Country, the narrator read the Biblical text in the local language (just as the Bible, the best-selling book of all time, has been translated into some 700 languages).

The symphonic poem “Jacob's Dream” gave Berliner the inspiration for composing four concertos that have been played with great success by top-level soloists, all with the title “Jacob’s Dream”: a concerto for violin and orchestra, a concerto for viola and Orchestra, a concerto for cello and orchestra, and a concerto for clarinet and orchestra.

Berliner has moreover written about 1,000 poems, 700 proverbs and dozens of short stories, mostly in German and partly in English. The poems in German were so far partly printed in six books. When returning to Israel, he wrote more than 3,000 love poems in Hebrew for his beloved wife Ruhama, part of which are already printed in seven books.