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R. Yehuda Leib Shalom son of R. Meir Zalman Zinober

Riebiņi / Rybnishtki

Born in approximately 5608 (1848).

He was ordained for halakhic rulings by R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spector of Kovna.

He served for 12 years as rabbi in the city of Ostrov and afterward as rabbi here.1)

From 5650 he served as chief rabbi of Kupishok in the district of Ponevezh, until his passing in 5658 (1890–1898), while in Warsaw, at age 50.

His Torah novellae and responsa were printed in his book Divrei Shalom, in which he engages in halakhic exchange with the Gaon R. Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk, R. Reuven HaLevi of Dvinsk, and R. Shlomo HaKohen of Vilna (vol. 1, London 5712; vol. 2, there, 5715).

His book Divrei Shalom, in the introduction. Yidishe Shtet, Shtetlekh un Dorfishe Yishuvim in Lite, p. 456.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
In his approbation from 5641 for the book Me'il Shmuel, he signs as Av Beit Din in the city of Robvenishak near Dvinsk. And likewise in the book Divrei Shalom, vol. 1, p. 198, a responsum to him from 5643 was printed where he is called “Av Beit Din of Rybnishtki,” and in vol. 2 (pp. 143 ff.) letters to him from 5647 call him rabbi of Rybnishtki.