Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Simcha Zelig Reguer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Rabbi Simcha Zelig Reguer (1864-1942), שמחה זעליג ריגר Dayan of Brisk, was the chief Rabbinical judge of Brest-Litovsk and surrounding Lithuania.[1]
 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
Remove ads
Biography
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
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads