Yitzchok Zilberstein

Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein
Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein in 2010
Personal details
Birth name	Yitzchok Zilberstein
Born	1934 Bendin, Poland
Nationality	Israel
Denomination	Haredi
Parents	Rabbi Dovid Yosef and Rachel Zilberstein
Spouse	Aliza Shoshana Eliashiv (1936–1999); remarried to Toby Tiberger
Children	Avrohom Arye Leah
Occupation	Posek, Rosh Kollel

Yitzchok Zilberstein (Hebrew: יצחק זילברשטיין‎‎, also spelled Silberstein) (born 1934) is a prominent Orthodox rabbi, posek (Jewish legal authority) and expert in medical ethics. He is the av beis din of the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood of Bnei Brak, the Rosh Kollel of Kollel Bais David in Holon, and the Rav of Mayanei Hayeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak. His opinion is frequently sought and quoted on all matters of halakha for the Israeli Lithuanian yeshiva community.

Zilberstein was born in Bendin, Poland to Rabbi Dovid Yosef and Rachel Zilberstein. The family emigrated to Palestine while he was a young boy, and he studied in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem under Rabbi Aryeh Levin. In his teen years Zilberstein studied in the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak, where he became a student of Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky, who gave him rabbinic ordination.

He married Aliza Shoshana Eliashiv (1936–1999), a daughter of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv and granddaughter of Rabbi Aryeh Levin. She assumed full responsibility for the material management of her household and encouraged him to continue studying Torah. They began their married life in Bnei Brak, where Zilberstein studied in the kollel attached to his alma mater and received another rabbinic ordination by the leading posek of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Shmuel Wosner. Subsequently, Zilberstein moved his family to Switzerland, where he served as a rosh mesivta and maggid shiur in the Yeshiva of Lucerne for several years.