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R. Moshe son of R. Gershon Mendil Ziv

Krustpils / Kreutzburg

Born in approximately 5550 (1790).

After his tenure as rabbi here he served as a member of the rabbinical court in Šiauliai, Lithuania.1)

He passed away in his prime, at age 33, on the first day of the festival of Shavuot, 6 Sivan 5583 (16 May 1823).

Author of the book Machshevet Moshe, commentaries on the Book of Commandments of the Rambam (Vilna 5626).

In the responsa Ateret Yitzchak (Jerusalem 5685) he engages in halakhic exchange with him (sections 82–85).2)

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
In his letters in Ateret Yitzchak (below) from 5573, he writes “here in Šiauliai,” and in the introduction to his book from 5575 he writes that he is “from the holy congregation of Šiauliai and currently residing in the holy congregation of Kreutzburg.”
2)
Ge'ulah veYeshua, at its end, in the history of the city of Šiauliai, p. 108. In Dor veDor veDorshav, letter 681 (p. 96), it states he passed away in 5588 (1828). In Yidishe Shtet, Shtetlekh un Dorfishe Yishuvim in Lite, p. 580, it writes that he was a member of the rabbinical court in Šiauliai from approximately 5576 (1816), without citing a source for this.