Solomon Zalkind Minor (Hebrew: שלמה זלקינד מינאר; 1826 or 1827 – January 21, 1900) was a Lithuanian-Russian rabbi and writer.

[1] In 1854, he became instructor in Talmud and rabbinical literature in that institution, and, in 1856, was appointed special adviser on Jewish affairs in the office of the governor-general of Vilna.

There he succeeded in obtaining from the government the right to establish an independent Jewish religious organization, a right which the community of Moscow had, till then, never enjoyed.

In 1891, when the expulsion of Moscow Jews began, Minor was banished by governor-general Sergei Alexandrovich to his native town, Vilna, where he remained in seclusion until his death.

It pictures the ideal rabbi as a devoted guardian of the spiritual interests of his flock and as the advocate of his people.

[4] At Minsk and Moscow he began delivering sermons in Russian—the first rabbi to do so—and frequently had many Christians among his hearers.