Hamelitz 1897; March 12 (24)

Grafskoy (a Jewish colony in the Government of Yekaterinoslav).

The 27th day of Adar I was for us a day of mourning and grief, because during it passed away to his eternal like in the sixty-seventh year of his life, the Rabbi, the Gaon, Av Din of this place, our Rabbi Pinkhas Komisarov, who officiated to the glory of our colony as rabbi and Shuv (# Skokhet and examiner of meat) for more than thirty years. Great honor was shown him on his death; all the rabbis of the surrounding colonies gathered, came to pay him the last honor and eulogized him according to the Halakha (# law). He was great in Torah and the Fear of Heaven, and in peace and righteousness he walked with his brethren the farmers.