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| Rabbi Simcha Zelig Reguer, Dayan of ], was the chief Rabbinical judge of Brest-Litovsk and surrounding Lithuania. | Rabbi Simcha Zelig Reguer, Dayan of ], was the chief Rabbinical judge of Brest-Litovsk and surrounding Lithuania. | ||
| Rabbi Reguer lived in the same house as Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva. |
Rabbi Reguer and his family lived in the same house (but on separate floors) as Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, and his family. Both were very close and it is said, that Rabbi Soloveichik would not make a move without Rabbi Reguer's opinion in Torah and all other matters. | ||
| Rabbi Reguer perished in the Holocaust with most of his community. | Rabbi Reguer perished in the Holocaust with most of his community. | ||
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| In his memoir, ] recalls how Nazi soldiers publicly humiliated Rabbi Reguer in the town square, and slashed his beard. | In his memoir, ] recalls how Nazi soldiers publicly humiliated Rabbi Reguer in the town square, and slashed his beard. | ||
| Rabbi Reguer is famously known for his piety and compassion. Once, a woman came to ask the Rabbi if a chicken was not kosher (fit for Jewish consumption) because of some blood traces. The Rabbi knew that if he ruled the chicken not kosher, then the woman and her seven children would go hungry on Shabbat. The Rabbi raised the uncooked chicken and tasted it with the tip of his tongue. The Rabbi found it tasted like bile, and ruled there were no blood traces and the chicken was kosher. | |||
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Rabbi Simcha Zelig Reguer, Dayan of Brisk, was the chief Rabbinical judge of Brest-Litovsk and surrounding Lithuania.
Rabbi Reguer and his family lived in the same house (but on separate floors) as Rabbi Chaim Soloveichik, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, and his family. Both were very close and it is said, that Rabbi Soloveichik would not make a move without Rabbi Reguer's opinion in Torah and all other matters.
Rabbi Reguer perished in the Holocaust with most of his community.
In his memoir, Menachem Begin recalls how Nazi soldiers publicly humiliated Rabbi Reguer in the town square, and slashed his beard.
Rabbi Reguer is famously known for his piety and compassion. Once, a woman came to ask the Rabbi if a chicken was not kosher (fit for Jewish consumption) because of some blood traces. The Rabbi knew that if he ruled the chicken not kosher, then the woman and her seven children would go hungry on Shabbat. The Rabbi raised the uncooked chicken and tasted it with the tip of his tongue. The Rabbi found it tasted like bile, and ruled there were no blood traces and the chicken was kosher.
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