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R. Moshe Meshal son of R. Yaakov Platzinsky

Višķi

Known by the epithet “the prodigy of Suvalki.” He was a close friend of the Gaon R. Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk.

He served as rabbi in Višķi for 40 years.1)

He passed away in 5667 (1907).

Some of his Torah novellae were printed in the pamphlet Zekher Avot at the end of the book Shalom Yehuda.

Yahadut Latviya, p. 407. Pinkas HaKehillot, p. 122.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
In Yachas Avot, letter 94 (and likewise in Ohalei Shem, p. 47) it is written that he served here as rabbi for approximately 50 years.