Sefer Beit Aharon Vehosafot, indices of the entire biblical verses that are introduced in both Talmudim, Midrashim, Kabbalah and Drush books, and a commentary on the Mesorah and Hosafot from seventy books, and Pirtei Hamitzvot and their Halachot, by Rabbi Avraham David Lavut. single edition, Vilna 1881. 364 pp.
On the leaf following the title page
, an approbation by the Maharash, who writes: "ומלבד מעלת עצם הספר מהראוי ונכון לאוהבי תורה לקנות ספר זה" and a prohibition of encroachment by the author
with his handwritten signature and stamp (this leaf was apparently completed from another copy.
Additional stamp on the title page: "מספרי עזבון הרה"ג רבי יצחק איצק, בהרה"ג ר’ מנחם נתן נטע זצ"ל אויערבאך".
[2] leaves, 360 pp.
Several comments with references on the margins of the sheet, most of them beginning with the words: "שכח לציין…" – apparently handwritten by Rabbi Menachem Natan Auerbach [see below].
Stains. Moth damage and aging blemishes. Good overall condition.
The author, Rabbi Abraham David Lavut (1815-1890) was the Rebbe of Chabad’s great-grandfather. Born in 1815 to Rabbi Yehuda Leib, when he was approx. 35 years old he was appointed Moreh Tzedek in Nikolaev, and approx. 10 years later he was appointed Rav of the city and Rav of around 40 villages in the area. He was Rosh of the Kollelim established by the Tzemach Tzedek and was close to the Tzemach Tzedek and Maharash, and at the end of his life he was in especially close correspondence with the latter regarding his works. The Maharash even wrote a glowing approbation on his work.
The Rebbe himself tells, in the introduction to his Sefer Kav Naki, what he heard from his mother, Rebbitizn Chana, that “Rabbi Avraham David excelled with his sharp wisdom, amazing skills, and wide-ranging knowledge of the sea that is the Talmud.”
The Gaon and Kabbalist Rabbi Menachem Natan Auerbach (1851-1930) the grandson of the Imrei Binah author of the books Orach Ne’eman on the Shulchan Aruch and more. Was the Rav of the Ruchama neighborhood in Jerusalem, one of the close friends of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook and in-law of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.
