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R. Eliyahu Shmuel son of R. Mordechai Arye Leib Yaffe

Subate

He served here in the rabbinate for 43 years.1) He was versed in the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Before his passing he commanded that no titles whatsoever be written on his tombstone, not even the title “rabbi.”

He passed away in 5654 (1894).

Ohalei Shem, p. 146. Di Geshikhte, pp. 187–8.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
It should be noted that apparently there was a rabbi or rabbinic decisor here long before him, as R. Avitzinsky writes in Di Geshikhte fun di Yidn in Letland, p. 187, that in the responsa Gedulat Mordechai, sections 4–8, a matter concerning the ritual slaughterer of Subitz is discussed, where the local rabbinic decisor wished to forbid him — and the author of the responsa Gedulat Mordechai, R. Mordechai Rabiner, passed away in 5590.