Zilberstein was born in
Bendin,
Poland to Rabbi Dovid Yosef and Rachel Zilberstein. The family emigrated to
Palestine while he was a young boy, and he studied in the
Etz Chaim Yeshiva in
Jerusalem under Rabbi
Aryeh Levin. In his teen years Zilberstein studied in the
Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak, where he became a student of Rabbi
Yehezkel Abramsky, who gave him
rabbinic ordination. He married Aliza Shoshana Elyashiv (1936–1999), a daughter of Rabbi
Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and granddaughter of Rabbi
Aryeh Levin. She assumed full responsibility for the material management of her household and encouraged him to continue studying
Torah. They began their married life in Bnei Brak, where Zilberstein studied in the
kollel attached to the Slabodka yeshiva and received another rabbinic ordination by the leading
posek of Bnei Brak, Rabbi
Shmuel Wosner. Subsequently, Zilberstein moved his family to
Switzerland, where he served as a
rosh mesivta and
maggid shiur in the
Yeshiva of
Lucerne for several years. Upon their return to Israel, Zilberstein headed the Bais David Institutions in Holon, a largely
secular city where he exerted a great influence over the entire community through his
shiurim (Torah lectures), including a monthly
shiur which he gave to religious and secular doctors on the topic of healing and halacha. In 1981 he was appointed Rav and
av beis din of the Ramat Elchanan neighborhood of Bnei Brak. ==Family==