Selig Starr

Who was Selig Starr?

Rabbi Selig Starr, born Zelig Starobinski, was a 20th-century Talmudic scholar in Poland, Chicago and Jerusalem. As the instructor of the highest-level shiur at Skokie, Illinois's Hebrew Theological College, he was responsible for most of Orthodox rabbinical students in the Chicago area over several decades.

He has taught thousands of young Jewish men Torah, Jewish ethics and culture. Due to his influence and inspiration many of these students later became leaders and teachers in Israel. There are at least 25 rabbis in Chicago alone who were his students.