Rabbi '''Shraga Silverstein''' was a Rabbi, author, and translator. He translated a number of books, including seventeen that were not published by 2014, and wrote three books himself.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.mishpacha.com/Browse/Article/4069/Somedayis-Today |publisher=Mishpacha Magazine |title= "Someday"is Today |first=Libi |last=Astaire}}</ref> He lived in Jerusalem until his death in 2014.<ref name=book_bio>{{cite book|title=Shmirath Halashon|first=Shraga|last=Silverstein}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://mrlitvak.blogspot.com/2014/11/rav-shraga-silverstein-zl-noted-writer.html|title=Rav Shraga Silverstein z"l - noted writer, translator, teacher, passes away|date=2 November 2014 }}</ref>
==Biography== Rabbi Shraga Silverstein graduated from Brooklyn College summa cum laude, with honours in English. He was also an alumnus of Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin. He taught in universities in the United States and Israel and served as Principal of various yeshivas.<ref name=book_bio />
==Books authored== * {{cite book|author1-last=Silverstein |author1-first=Shraga |author1-mask= |title=Hear My Son |location=New York |publisher=Feldheim |date=1967 |isbn= |oclc=5639570 }}<ref>{{cite book|title=Hear My Son|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kBZMAAAAYAAJ|first=Shraga|last=Silverstein |year = 1967|accessdate=May 10, 2019 }}</ref> * {{cite book|author1-last=Silverstein |author1-first=Shraga |author1-mask=3 |title=The Antidote: Human Sexuality in a Torah Perspective |location=Jerusalem |publisher=Feldheim|date=1979 |isbn= |oclc=610500202 }}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P7nXAAAAMAAJ|title=The Antidote|first=Shraga|last=Silverstein |year=1979|publisher=Feldheim Publishers |isbn=9780873061735|accessdate=May 10, 2019 }}</ref> * {{cite book|author1-last=Silverstein |author1-first=Shraga |author1-mask=3 |title=A Candle By Day: Three Thousand ... Topical Musar Modules |location=Jerusalem |publisher=H. Wagshal |date=1981 |isbn= |oclc=11310360 }}<ref>{{cite book|first=Shraga|last=Silverstein|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1D5GwAACAAJ|title=A Candle by Day |year=2000|accessdate=May 10, 2019 }}</ref>
==Translations== * Shmirath Halashon (by the Chofetz Chaim) * The Knowing Heart: Da'Ath Tevunoth (by Moshe Chayim Luzzatto) * Ways of the Tzaddikim: Orchos Tzaddikim * The Gates of Repentance: Sha'arei Teshuvah (by Jonah Ben Abraham Gerondi) * The Path of the Just/Mesillat Yesharim (by Moshe Chayim Luzzatto) * Derashoth HaRan / The Discourses of the Ran (by Nissim of Gerona) * The Essential Torah Temimah (by Boruch Halevi Epstein) * The Rashi Chumash (by Rashi) * Pathways to Teshuvah (by Moshe Chaim Luzzatto) * Sefer Hamitzvot (by Maimonides)
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==External links== * [http://www.librarything.com/author/silversteinshraga Librarything Author Profile]
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