Dov Moshe Namiat

Rabbi Dov Moshe Namiat (also rendered Namyot) was born around 1860 in Zhetel, or Dzyatlava, the Lithuanian town that also produced the Chofetz Chaim. He received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik of Brisk, known by the title of his work as the Beis Halevi. After a long tenure in Plungian and a period in Antwerp, he settled in England, where from 1915 he led the small traditional Jewish community of Gateshead, years before the town became widely known for its yeshiva. He remained there until his sudden death in 1919. His scholarship survives in Divrei Moshe (Vilna, 1906), a volume of Talmudic novellae. Approbations came from Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski, Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, and Rabbi Meir Atlas, and the book also carried two short pieces by his father-in-law, Rabbi Zevulun Leib Barit.