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R. Abba David son of R. Yehuda Goldfein

Grīva

Born in 56341) in Reidak, near Utzian, district of Kovna. He studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva.

Son-in-law of the Gaon of Rogatchov.

After his marriage he served as rabbinic decisor in Dvinsk and was rabbi at “der Farberisher Minyan” (the Dyers' Synagogue), which was the Chabad synagogue.2) Afterward he moved to serve as rabbi and rabbinic decisor here.

During the expulsion in the First World War he moved to Moscow, where he served as rabbi and Av Beit Din3) until his passing on 19 Iyyar 5696 (11 May 1936), and his resting place is there in the Vostryakovo Cemetery.

In the collection Moriah, Nisan 5763 (issue 294–296), p. 76, there is a list of his printed and manuscript writings. In the responsa Tsafnat Pa'aneach of his father-in-law (Dvinsk 5700), his pamphlet on chalitzah was printed.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
In Yahadut Lita, vol. 3, p. 37 — 5638, and in Toldot Gedolei Yisrael (Jerusalem 5701), p. 72 — 5635.
2)
Kfar Chabad weekly, issue 918.
3)
He was accepted as Av Beit Din approximately in 5685 — HaGachelet, p. 60.