Simcha Zelig Reguer
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Rabbi Simcha Zelig Reguer (1864-1942), שמחה זעליג ריגר Dayan of Brisk, was the chief Rabbinical judge of Brest-Litovsk and surrounding Lithuania.[1]
Biography
[edit]Rabbi Reguer and his family lived in the same house (but on separate floors) as Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik,[2] head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, and his family.
In his memoir, Menachem Begin recalls how Nazi soldiers publicly humiliated Rabbi Reguer in the town square, and slashed his beard.[3] Rabbi Reguer perished in the holocaust along with most of his community.
References
[edit]- ^ Sara Reguer, My Father's Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2015
- ^ Frand, Rabbi Yissocher (2021-08-25). "Vidui for What Could Have Been and Should Have Been". Torah.org. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
- ^ Sara Reguer, My Father's Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2015