Binyamin Zeilberger

Rabbi Binyamin Zeilberger (sometimes pronounced Tzahlberger; Hebrew: רב בנימין צלברגר/ציילברגר) was the rosh yeshiva of Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in the second half of the twentieth century. He was an alumnus of the Mir Yeshiva in Europe.

Rabbi
Binyamin Zeilberger
Zeilberger (at left) with Elya Svei
Personal
BornMarch 14, 1921
Koenigshaufen, Germany
DiedOctober 10, 2005
Brooklyn, New York
ReligionJudaism
SpouseSara Rochel Zeilberger née Kaplan
Parents
  • • Yehudah [Julius] Zeilberger (father)
  • • Chana [Johanna] Zeilberger née Reinhold (mother)
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
Alma materMir Yeshiva (Belarus)
Jewish leader
PredecessorChaim Vysokier
SuccessorYehuda Zeilberger
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaBeth Hatalmud Rabbinical College
Yahrtzeit7 Tishrei

Early life

Zeilberger was born in Koenigshaufen, Germany on March 14, 1921, to Yehuda (Julius) and Chana (Johanna) Zeilberger.[1] In 1935 he enrolled in the Mir Yeshiva in what is now Belarus,[2] where he shared a room in a boarding house with Aryeh Leib Malin, Yonah Minsker, and Michel Feinstein.[3]

When World War II broke out in 1939 the Mir Yeshiva (and many other yeshivas in Poland) fled to Lithuania.[4] Zeilberger remained with the yeshiva when it moved to Japan in 1941, then to Shanghai,[2] and then in 1947 to the United States where it was reëstablished in Brooklyn.

Zeilberger married Sara Rochel Kaplan.[2]

Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College

Zeilberger soon joined the Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, [2] established in 1950 by older students from the Mir Yeshiva who had also escaped from Europe including Aryeh Leib Malin.[5] Zeilberger later became a rosh yeshiva there[2][5] and was on the faculty for over fifty years.[2]

Death

Zeilberger died in Brooklyn on October 10, 2005, at the age of 84.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Rav Binyomin Zeilberger, Rabbi". geni.com. Geni.com. 14 March 1921. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. "Noted in Sorrow" (PDF). The Jewish Observer. XXXVIII (9): 6, 41. November 2005. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
  3. Geberer, Yehuda; Safier, Dovi (March 23, 2021). "FOR the record: The Yekke List". Mishpacha (854): 176.
  4. Wein, Berel (October 1990). "Hitler's War Against the Jews". Triumph of Survival (First ed.). Brooklyn, NY: Shaar Press. p. 355. ISBN 1-4226-1514-6.
  5. Geberer, Yehuda; Safier, Dovi (March 23, 2021). "FOR the record: The Yekke List". Mishpacha (854): 176.
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