Gostiņi / Dankere / Glazmanka
His father served as rabbi of Kreutzburg.
Born in Shklov in the year 5570 (1810) approximately.
Rabbi of Gustini for more than forty years. At the end of his life he ascended to Jerusalem, lived there for about five years, and passed away there on 26 Tammuz 5656 (7 July 1896); his resting place is on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
In a manuscript scroll of responsa and homilies of R. Nachman Yehuda Eidel Margolies, rabbi of Jakobstadt, held at the Moscow Library (after p. 32), there appears a responsum dated Wednesday, 15 Tevet 5632, “to my dear kinsman, the renowned rabbi, our teacher Yisrael, may he live, Rivlin, rabbi of the community of Dankere.”
Di Geshikhte fun di Yidn in Letland, p. 169. Sefer HaYachas – Rivlin, no. 308. Rivlin family website: http://www.rivlin-family.com, no. 308, where it is written in error that he was rabbi in Glazmanka and afterward in Dankre, whereas these are two names for the same town.
Here lies the great Torah scholar, our teacher
Yisrael, son of the great Torah scholar etc.,
our teacher Avigdor Rivlin, passed away 26 Tammuz [5]656.
May his soul be bound in the bond of life.
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