Shits Ber was born on 14 January 1915 in Hasenpoth (Aizpute); he studied at the Aizpute Jewish primary school, in 1932 graduated from the Aizpute State Gymnasium, and in 1936 from the Riga yeshiva, and was ordained by the Aizpute rabbi Z. G. Sherel. Rabbi in Riebiņi from 8 November 1936.