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R. Yekutiel son of R. Yaakov HaLevi Efrimzon

Bauska / Rabbinic Decisors

Born in the year 5600 (1840) in Talsi, where his father served as rabbi. He studied under R. Moshe Yitzchak HaLevi, rabbi of Ponevezh (and elsewhere), and was ordained by him for halakhic rulings. He also studied in Kovna under the influence of R. Israel Salanter and under R. Moshe Zeitlin.

Son-in-law of R. Moshe Lernblat, rabbi of Sassmacken.

He served in the rabbinate in Sassmacken and also for a short time in Mitau. He was then accepted here as dayan and rabbinic decisor, and in the year 5656 was elected as official rabbi.1) He passed away here at the end of the year 5672 (1912).

Ohalei Shem, p. 21. Di Geshikhte, p. 79 (where it is written in error that he passed away in the year 5671). Yahadut Latviya, p. 257. HaModi'a newspaper, 9 Tishrei 5673.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
He is signed in the registration books of births, deaths, and marriages as official rabbi from the month of Menachem Av 5656 (July 1896). He is also signed in the registration books of the Schimberg community.