Rabbi Simcha Zelig Reguer (1864-1942), שמחה זעליג ריגר Dayan of Brisk, was the chief Rabbinical judge of

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and surrounding

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Biography

Rabbi Reguer and his family lived in the same house (but on separate floors) as Rabbi

Chaim Soloveichik Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik (Yiddish language, Yiddish: חיים סאָלאָווייטשיק, ), also known as Chaim Brisker (1853 – 30 July 1918), was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the Brisker method of Talmudic stu ...

, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, and his family. In his memoir,

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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.

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