Rabbi Simcha Zelig Reguer (1864-1942), שמחה זעליג ריגר Dayan of
Brisk, was the chief Rabbinical judge of
Brest-Litovsk
Brest ( be, Брэст / Берасьце, Bieraście, ; russian: Брест, ; uk, Берестя, Berestia; lt, Brasta; pl, Brześć; yi, בריסק, Brisk), formerly Brest-Litovsk (russian: Брест-Литовск, lit=Lithuanian Br ...
and surrounding
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
.
Biography
Rabbi Reguer and his family lived in the same house (but on separate floors) as Rabbi
Chaim Soloveichik
Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik (Yiddish: חיים סאָלאָווייטשיק, pl, Chaim Sołowiejczyk), also known as Reb Chaim Brisker (1853 – 30 July 1918), was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the popular Brisker appr ...
, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, and his family.
In his memoir,
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin ( ''Menaḥem Begin'' (); pl, Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ''Menakhem Volfovich Begin''; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. B ...
recalls how Nazi soldiers publicly humiliated Rabbi Reguer in the town square, and slashed his beard.
[Sara Reguer, My Father's Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2015] Rabbi Reguer perished in the holocaust along with most of his community.
References
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1864 births
1942 deaths
Belarusian Orthodox rabbis
Belarusian Jews who died in the Holocaust