Mishnas Yaavetz
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Betzalel Zolty
Betzalel Zolty
1920 CE–1982 CE · Modern · Stavitsk
Yaakov Betzalel Zolty was born in 1920 in Stawiski (Stavitsk), in the Łomża region of Poland, and came with his family to Mandatory Palestine as a child in 1927, settling in Jerusalem. He studied at the Etz Chaim and Hebron yeshivot, where he was noted early for his learning. From 1951 he served as a dayan (rabbinical judge), first on the Tel Aviv rabbinical court and afterward in Jerusalem, and in 1956 he was appointed to Israel's Supreme Rabbinical Court. In 1977 he was elected Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, a position he held until his death in 1982. His halakhic writings appeared under the title Mishnat Yaavetz—an acronym drawn from his name—including responsa on Choshen Mishpat (1963) and on the festival laws of Orach Chaim (1976); an earlier work, Ginzei ha-Sifrei, treated the Sifrei (1948). He twice received the Rabbi Kook Prize for Torah literature.
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