Rav Juda Gershon cites
the death of his "big daughter" Esther Pinia several months earlier.
He calls her "isha" and "marat" and says that she had no children, so it
sounds like she was an adult and married, but there is no specific reference
to her being married or to her age.
In fact he says "tender years." From birth records
we see that she was married to Nechemya Gottlieb and had a stillborn son
in Rozdol in 1888.
The only record for a child for Rav Juda Gershon
in Rozdol is a daughter, Shifra Mindel, who was born in 1863 and died as
an infant. When he calls Esther Pinia his "big daughter," I assume
this to exclude Shifra Mindel entirely and that "big" is in comparison
to Rivka. We don't know when these daughters were born, but since
they do not seem to show up in Rozdol records, we may guess that they were
both born after Rav JG moved to his position in Lysiec, in 1870. |