Zalman Nechemia Goldberg
Zalman Nechemia Goldberg is a rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva in Israel. The :wikt:scion|scion of a Lithuanian Jewish family, Goldberg is also a son-in-law of Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.
Goldberg is a halakhic authority and Chief Justice of the Rabbinical High Court in Jerusalem, where he has made rulings on the issues of gittin, ketubot, artificial insemination, and the commandment of living in the Land of Israel. He co-authored the Jewish prenuptial agreement sponsored by the Rabbinical Council of America together with Mordechai Willig.
Goldberg is the rosh yeshiva of both the Sadigura Hasidic yeshiva and the Jerusalem College of Technology, and heads the Institute for the Higher Study of Halacha in Jerusalem. He has lectured extensively in the Chabad Yeshivat Torat Emet of Jerusalem on matters of Jewish law.
Goldberg is also well known for his semicha exams, which are often taken as an alternative to those offered by the Israeli Rabbinate.
In November 2009, Goldberg wrote an endorsement for The King's Torah, a controversial book by Yitzhak Shapira. He later rescinded it, saying that the book includes statements that "have no place in human intelligence."
