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R. Shlomo Yehuda Leib son of R. Moshe Meshal Platzinsky

Daugavpils / Dvinsk / Dinabug / Denenborg / Denabarg / Dayyanim, Rabbinic Decisors, and Synagogue Rabbis

Born in 5636 (1876)1) in the town of Vishki, where his father served in the rabbinate. He was educated at the yeshivas of Slobodka and Slutsk.

Son-in-law of R. Natan Tzvi Finkel, founder and director of the Knesset Yisrael yeshiva in Slobodka.

From 5664 (1904) he served as rabbi in Vishki in his father's place for approximately twenty-five years, and from 5690 (1930) he served as rabbi in the area of Magash Chadash in Dvinsk.

He perished in the Holocaust. According to reports, when the Jews of Dvinsk were led to their deaths, he walked at their head, wrapped in a tallit.2)

Torah novellae from him were published in the monthly Knesset Yisrael, Sivan 5698, Marcheshvan 5699, and in the pamphlet Zekher Avot at the end of the book Shalom Yehuda.

Yahadut Latviya, p. 407. Monthly Sha'arei Tzion, Iyyar–Sivan 5690, p. 34. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 238. Photo of the announcement from HaAba miSlobodka.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
His son writes in his book Shalom Yehuda, p. 353, that he was born in 5635. He also writes that he headed the Beit Yosef Novhardok yeshiva in Dvinsk.
2)
But see Churban Lite, p. 217, which states he perished in prison before 17 Tammuz 5701 (12 July 1941).