Binyamin Zeilberger
Orthodox rabbi from New York City
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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 | |
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 Zeilberger (at left) with Elya Svei | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | March 14, 1921 Koenigshaufen, Germany |
| Died | October 10, 2005 (aged 84) Brooklyn, New York |
| Spouse | Sara Rochel Zeilberger née Kaplan |
| Education | Mir Yeshiva (Belarus) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Denomination | Orthodox Judaism |
| Jewish leader | |
| Predecessor | Chaim Vysokier |
| Successor | Yehuda Zeilberger |
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College |
| Yahrtzeit | 7 Tishrei |
Early life
Zeilberger was born in Koenigshaufen, Germany on March 14, 1921. In 1935 he enrolled in the Mir Yeshiva in what is now Belarus,[1] where he shared a room in a boarding house with Aryeh Leib Malin, Yonah Minsker, and Michel Feinstein.[2]
When World War II broke out in 1939 the Mir Yeshiva (and many other yeshivas in Poland) fled to Lithuania.[3] Zeilberger remained with the yeshiva when it moved to Japan in 1941, then to Shanghai,[1] and then in 1947 to the United States where it was reëstablished in Brooklyn.
Zeilberger married Sara Rochel Kaplan.[1]
Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College
Zeilberger soon joined the Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn,[1] established in 1950 by older students from the Mir Yeshiva who had also escaped from Europe including Aryeh Leib Malin.[4] Zeilberger later became a rosh yeshiva there[1][4] and was on the faculty for over fifty years.[1]
Death
Zeilberger died in Brooklyn on October 10, 2005, at the age of 84.