Although it was published first, this is the English version of some of the halachic (Jewish Law) issues discussed in Dayan Steinberg’s book in Hebrew, “Lekutei Meir”, which I have written about previously.
Meyer Steinberg was born in Poland on April 1st, 1906. He was the Rabbi of Czortkow (in the northern part of Galician Podolia, now the Ukraine) until 1939 and was in the Old City of Jerusalem from 1940 to 1942 and was then the Senior Jewish Chaplain to the Polish Forces in the Middle East, until 1946. His brother, Rabbi Baruch Steinberg was Chief Rabbi of the Polish army when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. Baruch Steinberg was murdered by the Russians at Katyn.
Rabbi Steinberg came to London after the war and was Rabbi of Notting Hill Synagogue from 1948 to 1952, and Brixton Synagogue from 1952 to 1966. He became a Dayan (Judge) of the London Beth Din (Ecclesiastical Court) in 1956.
There is a photograph of members of the London Beth Din in 1962 in the National Portrait Gallery collection – Dayan Steinberg is second from the right. He died in 1971.
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