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Rabbi Shaul Brus (Hebrew: רב שאול ברוס) (1919–2008 ) was a Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshiva Beis HaTalmud.
Rabbi Brus was born in Sawin, Poland, to a family of Trisker Hasidim. At the age of 16, after having studied in the Yeshiva in Pinsk from the age of 11, Shaul Brus was accepted into the Knesses Beis Yitzchak yeshiva of Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz in Kaminetz. There he became a close student of Rabbi Leibowitz.
He was exiled to Siberia during the Holocaust and eventually found refuge in America, where he became a Talmudic lecturer at Yeshiva Beis HaTalmud in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He stayed at this position for over half a century.[1]
He suffered a stroke in November 2006, from which he never recovered.[2] He died on June 9, 2008, on the second day of the holiday of Shavuot.
- ^ My Machberes: Rabbi Shaul Brus, zt"l (1919-2008)[permanent dead link]
- ^ UPDATED: Petira of Hagon Rav Shaul Brus ZATZAL