Simcha Zelig Reguer Explained

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

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.

Notes and References

1. Sara Reguer, My Father's Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2015
2. Web site: Frand . Rabbi Yissocher . 2021-08-25 . Vidui for What Could Have Been and Should Have Been . 2023-12-28 . Torah.org . en-US.
3. Sara Reguer, My Father's Journey: A Memoir of Lost Worlds of Jewish Lithuania, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2015