Jelgava / Mitau / Mitava / Litave

Born in Yanishok, where his father served as rabbi.

He also served in the rabbinate in Veksne and Ponevezh.

He passed away in 5580 (1820).

In the book Pri Eshel of his grandson (Vilna 5637), his treatise Birkat Avraham was printed, containing Torah novellae on the matter of permitting an agunah.

Author of Metek Sefatayim on tractate Shabbat (printed from manuscript, Bnei Brak 5757).

Shem HaGedolim HaShlishi, letter alef, section 61 (p. 15). He is not mentioned by R. Avitzinsky. In Entsiklopediya LeToldot Chakhmei Eretz Yisrael, vol. 3, p. 81 (and likewise in Yahadut Lita, vol. 3, p. 55; Atlas Etz Chaim, vol. 10, p. 164), his son R. Shabtai is confused with his father R. Avraham Avli.

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