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Yonasan Steif
Yonasan Steif
1877 CE–1958 CE · Acharonim · Kolta
Rabbi Yonasan Steif (1877–1958) was a Hungarian halachic authority born in Kolta, a village in the Nitra region of present-day Slovakia. Sent as a boy to the renowned yeshiva of Pressburg (Bratislava), he studied under Rabbi Simcha Bunim Sofer, the Shevet Sofer, whom he regarded as his principal teacher. In 1922 he was appointed a senior judge (dayan) on the rabbinical court of Budapest, becoming one of pre-war Hungary's most consulted decisors. In 1944 he was among the rabbis who reached neutral Switzerland aboard the rescue transport organized by Rudolf Kastner. He later settled in the United States, leading Kehal Adas Yereim in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he was known as the Wiener Rov. His responsa were collected as She'eilos u'Teshuvos Mahari Steif, and he also treated the Noahide commandments in Sefer Mitzvos Hashem.
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