Yehoshua Neuwirth

Yehoshua Neuwirth

Rabbi Yehoshua Yeshaya Neuwirth (Hebrew: יהושע ישעיה נויברט) is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Jerusalem. He is one of the top students of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.

Rabbi Neuwirth wrote a two-volume treatise (three volumes in English), "Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchatah" (Hebrew: שמירת שבת כהלכתה), which covers the laws of Shabbat.


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