Rabbi Chaim David Regensberg, one of the world’s leading Talmudic scholars, died here yesterday at the age of 84. He was born in Poland and studied at the yeshivas in Rodin. Slobotka and Lomza. After World War I he studied at the University of Giessen in Germany. Regensberg came to the United States in 1922 where he joined the staff of the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago and headed its rabbinical department. He is believed to have ordained more than 1000 rabbis. He spent almost 50 years in the U.S. before retiring in Jerusalem. He continued to conduct Talmud lessons twice a week until his death.
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