Ezriel Zelig Sharfstein (July 21, 1928– February 11, 2008) was a prominent

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rabbi, the

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of the ''Vaad Ho'ir'' of

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, and an international authority on Jewish law. He was a long time, distinguished member on the Executive Committee of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis.

Life

He was born in 1928 on the

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. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1952 and married Reba Kazornovsky in 1954. He was hand-picked by Rabbi

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, to teach in the city's Jewish Day School. In 1964, Silver, then the president of the

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and one of American Jewry's foremost leaders, promoted him to the role of principal.

References

External links

Biography
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