Zelig Sharfstein

Ezriel Zelig Sharfstein was a prominent Chabad rabbi, the Chief Rabbi of the Vaad Ho'ir of Cincinnati, 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 Lower [East Side, Manhattan|Lower East Side of Manhattan]. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1952 and married Reba Kazornovsky in 1954. He was hand-picked by Rabbi Eliezer Silver, to teach in the city's Jewish Day School. In 1964, Silver, then the president of the Union of [Orthodox Rabbis|Agudath HaRabbonim] and one of American Jewry's foremost leaders, promoted him to the role of principal.