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R. Shlomo son of R. Chaim Weiler

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

After the passing of R. Feivel Rappaport, until a new city rabbi was chosen, the people of the city accepted the dayan R. Shlomo upon themselves.1)

He was apparently the son of R. Chaim, rabbi of Ponedel (Pandel), district of Kovna, a Hasid of the Middle Rebbe of Lubavitch and son-in-law of R.Y.L. Batlan.2)

He is signed on a deposition taken in Dvinsk from the year 56253): “N.A.O. Shlomo, son of our teacher and rabbi R. Chaim, may he live, dayan of the holy congregation of the above-mentioned.” He is also signed as rabbinic decisor in a letter from 5635.

Ohalei Lubavitch, issue 4 (Shevat 5756), in the article on the Hasid R. Chaim Weiler, Av Beit Din of Pandel, notes 1 and 5. Kfar Chabad weekly, issue 918, p. 41.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
Beit Shalom, p. 66. Introduction to the responsa Zekher Yehuda (Ohalei Shem Institute, 5751).
2)
And not as written in the introduction there, note 23.
3)
Yagdil Torah collection, New York, booklet 43, p. 364.