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R. Shlomo Zalman son of R. Yitzchak Aizik Pinsker

1)

Krustpils / Kreutzburg

His origin is from the city of Polotsk.

Among those attached to the Lubavitcher Rebbe the Tzemach Tzedek and his son the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Maharash).

He also served as rabbi in Lubavitch; at the end of his days as rabbi in Kherson, where he is laid to rest.

He passed away in approximately 56482) (1888).

Approbations from him: Pelach HaRimon (on the book of Genesis) of the well-known Hasid R. Hillel of Paritch; tractate Avot with the commentary of R. Yosef Yaabetz (Warsaw 5640); Ayalah Rabati of the Remak (Lvov 5641).

He participated in the assembly of Anash in Dvinsk after the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe the Tzemach Tzedek, and also at the assembly in Lubavitch after the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Maharash).

Mentioned in the responsa Ayala Shlucha of R. Naftali Hertz Klatzkin, section 23.

In Sdei Chemed (vol. 5, section on Chametz and Matzah, p. 192), on the law of chametz belonging to Karaites over which Passover has passed, he writes:

“And on the halakhic matter I have already cited above the opinion of a great rabbi of our generation (and it was not recorded who made these statements — he is the Gaon our master R. Shneur Zalman Pinsker, Av Beit Din of the holy congregation of Kherson) to be lenient and to treat this chametz like the law of chametz belonging to a non-Jew over which Passover has passed.”

And there (vol. 6, section on Bride and Groom, p. 260):

“And it is true that in a letter sent to me by my friend the great rabbi our master R. Shneur Zalman Pinsker, the Av Beit Din of Kherson, may he live, he attested that the leading rabbis perform marriage ceremonies throughout the month of Elul until the beginning of the Days of Selichot.”

He is also mentioned as Av Beit Din of Kherson in the prenumeranten at the end of the book Masa Krym (Warsaw 5638).

Ohalei Shem, p. 79. Beit Rebbi, vol. 3, p. 40. Migdal Oz, p. 224.
“Once, when I was in the city of Kreutzburg, I asked the rabbi, the Gaon R. Zalman Pinsker, of blessed and holy memory — who afterward was rabbi in the city of Kherson — about a man suspected in my eyes, whether I could eat at his house at a circumcision, and he answered me: I studied the laws of the lung in Yoreh De'ah as they pertain to animals but not to people.”

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
At the end of the book _Masa Krym_ (below) his name is written Shlomo Zalman, and likewise in _Ohalei Shem_, p. 79, in the dedication written by his son-in-law R. Moshe Avigdor Chaikin in his book _Klalei HaPoskim_, and also in his approbation for tractate Avot with the commentary of R. Yosef Yaabetz. But in _Sdei Chemed_ (below) his name is written Shneur Zalman.
2)
Or 5647. In his son's approbation for Netivei Rashi (Vilna 5648), from the first day of Chanukah 5648, he writes of his father using the abbreviation “of blessed memory,” meaning this was within the year of his passing.