Yitzchok Zilberstein

Yitzchok Zilberstein was born in 1934 in Będzin

Zilberstein was born in 1934 in Będzin, Poland, to Dovid Yosef and Rachel Zilberstein. The family moved to the Land of Israel when he was a boy. He studied at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem under Rabbi Aryeh Levin.

As a teenager he studied at the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak, where Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky ordained him. He married Aliza Shoshana Elyashiv, a daughter of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv. He later received another ordination from Rabbi Shmuel Wosner.

For several years he taught at the Yeshiva of Lucerne in Switzerland. Back in Israel he headed the Bais David institutions in Holon and gave a monthly class on medicine and Jewish law to religious and secular doctors. In 1981 he was appointed rabbi and head of the rabbinical court of the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood in Bnei Brak.

He rules on medical questions such as organ transplants, abortion and in vitro fertilization. His books of stories and advice, arranged by the weekly Torah portion, were translated into English from 2009. In 2009 he sat on a committee on conversion and civil marriage.

His first wife died in 1999, and he then married Toby Tiberger and moved to Ramat Gan. He joined the Council of Torah Sages of Degel HaTorah. Since 2022 his weekly class has been held at the main synagogue of Ramat Elchanan.