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R. Mordechai son of R. Eliyahu Margolies

Ilukste

Born in the year 5608 (1848) to his father, who was his primary teacher and served as Av Beit Din in Radin, district of Vilna, and in Rakshik, district of Kovna.

He was ordained by the rabbis who were sons of the Rebbe the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch, the rabbis of Dvinsk, R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spector of Kovna, and R. Moshe Yehoshua Leib Diskin.

In the year 5632 he was accepted as rabbi here and served in the rabbinate until the end of the year 5643 (1872–1883), when he was accepted as rabbi in Disna, district of Vilna.1)

He passed away in Disna on the 21st of Kislev 5676 (1916).

Author of the book Sugah BaShoshanim on the laws of niddah and responsa on various matters (Vilna 5654), with approbations of R. Mordechai Schneersohn of Vitebsk, the rabbis of Dvinsk, the rabbis of Vilna, and the Rabbi Refael Shapira, Av Beit Din of Brisk-Volozhin.2)

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
In Di Geshikhte fun di Yidn in Letland it is written that he was accepted as rabbi in Ilukste in the year 5635 and served there until the year 5644, and in Ohalei Shem it is written that in the year 5642 he was accepted as rabbi of Disna. But it has already been proven in the collection Ohalei Lubavitch, booklet 3, p. 14, note 7, that from the dates of the approbations to his book it emerges that in the year 5643 he was still rabbi in Ilukste. See also HaMelitz, 4 Tammuz 5644 (27 June 1884), where it is noted that he arrived to serve in the rabbinate in Disna before Rosh Hashanah 5644.
2)
Ohalei Shem, p. 342. An article about him in the collection Ohalei Lubavitch, booklet 3.