Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, a respected Dayan and Rov in Jerusalem, passed away on Thursday, 30 Av, 5780.
He was 89.
Rabbi Goldberg was known as one of the great Torah scholars of our generation. He had a close connection with the Rebbe.
Two of his uncles learned in the original Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim in the Russian town of Lubavitch.
He was born in Minsk, Belarus, in Shvat 5691/1931, to his parents Rabbi Avraham and Freidel Goldberg. The family immigrated to Israel when he was five years old.
In 5714/1954 he married Rebbetzin Rochel, the daughter of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach obm.
Rabbi Goldberg served in many Rabbinical positions, as a member of the Bais Din and the author of numerous seforim in Halacha.
He was the rosh yeshiva of both the Sadigura Hasidic yeshiva and the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev), and headed the Institute for the Higher Study of Halacha (Machon Iyun Ha’Halacha) in Jerusalem. He lectured extensively in the Chabad Yeshivat Torat Emet of Jerusalem on matters of Jewish law.
Rabbi Goldberg was noted as a Dayan and for his extensive knowledge in the technological, medical and legal fields.
Rabbi Goldberg was also well known for his semicha (rabbinic ordination) exams, which were taken by thousands of students over the years.
In recent weeks he was unwell and was hospitalized in the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital after a stroke. He passed away on Thursday.
He is survived by his wife, Rochel, and children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The levayah will be held Thursday night, with burial in Har Hazeisim.
Baruch Dayan Ha’emes.
He lived right next to torah emes and back in my day we used to go hear his shiur in minchas chinuch at his apartment leil shishi
Hagarze”n was an emese gadol HaDor
Yehi zichro Boruch
Moshiach now
Baruch Dayan Ha’Emes. This is a huge loss. The following is translated from the Todah in “Sefer Sheva Mitzvot HaShem,” Krach Aleph, by Rav Moshe Weiner in Yerushalayim, Kislev, 5768: Acknowledgements As I go forth from the introduction and I open the book, it is incumbent upon me to appreciatively recognize those who helped me to publish this book and arrange it, and without them this book would not have been published. […] The last is dearest, and I must express thanks to the one upon whom the merit of the multitudes rests, to the Ga’on Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Goldberg… Read more »