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R. Shalom son of R. Yehoshua Rabinowitz

Kuldīga / Goldingen

A student of the Gaon R. Chaim of Volozhin.

He served as rabbi in Yanishok (Yanishki) for 41 years, 5568–5607 (1808–1847), and afterward as rabbi here.1)

He passed away on 24 Menachem Av 5632 (20 August 1872).2)

Author of the book Divrei Shalom veEmet (Vilna 5633).

In the responsa Ateret Yitzchak he engages in halakhic exchange with him (sections 37, 111, 134, 135). A responsum to him was also printed in the responsa Zikaron Yaakov of R. Yaakov Bendtman of Bauska (section 29).

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
Yidishe Shtet, Shtetlekh un Dorfishe Yishuvim in Lite, p. 214.
2)
Introduction to his book. In the city of Vilna it is written that he passed away in 5622, and R. Avitzinsky followed this in his books. Moreover, it is not at all clear from his books that he indeed served here as rabbi in practice. See also the quarterly Sha'arei Tzion, Tishrei 5724, p. 2.