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R. Reuven Yitzchak son of R. Yekutiel Zissel Ilian

Riga

His father served as rabbi of Klikol in Lithuania.1)

He served as rabbi and rabbinic decisor in Riga for decades.2)

He passed away on 29 Nisan 5675 (14 April 1915).

Responsa to him were printed in the responsa Zekher Yehoseph, Orach Chaim, vol. 1, section 129 — “to the rabbi R. Reuven Yitzchak, son of the rabbi of Klikol, and he is currently Maggid Mesharim and rabbinic decisor in Riga” — and in vol. 3, section 194. A responsum to him was also printed in the responsa Meshiv Davar, vol. 2, section 55.3)

An approbation from him was printed in the book Hadarat Tzvi of R. Levi Avitzinsky (Piotrków 5674).

He is mentioned in the prenumeranten at the beginning of the book Tiferet Shaul, vol. 1 (Piotrków 5659).

Di Geshikhte, p. 94. Newspaper HaTzfirah, 30 Nisan 5675.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
And it is an error what is written in Yahadut Lita, vol. 3, p. 350, that R. Reuven Yitzchak also was rabbi in Klikol.
2)
He first appears in the marriage registration book here as officiant of kiddushin in the month of Elul 5645 (August 1885).
3)
A responsum from 5638, calling him “rabbinic decisor of the holy congregation of Riga,” meaning he was already then serving in the rabbinate. And in the prenumeranten list from 5636 at the beginning of the book Ne'um David (Vilna 5636) he is written as “R. Yitzchak, rabbinic decisor.”