Sefer Beis Aharon v’Hosafot, a mareh mekomot and notes on verses from Tanach, Shas Bavli and Yerushalmi, and works of the Rishonim, by Rabbi Abraham David ben Judah Leib Lawat. Vilna 1881.
The approbations page has the signature and stamp of the author, the Rebbe’s great-grandfather.
Many handwritten notes and additions (Rashi script) throughout the work. The second title page has the handwritten note: “Missing here a Toesfta Safra Sifrei and Mechilta Pesikta and Midrash Mishlei.”
[2] leaves, 360 pages.
Detached title page and one additional page, tears on the title page and the 2nd leaf (without missing parts), tape on the last leaf with some missing part of page, no binding, otherwise overall good condition.
Rabbi Abraham David ben Judah Leib Lawat was the Rebbe of Chabad’s great-grandfather. Born in 1815 to Rabbi Yehuda Leib, when he was around 35 years old he was appointed motz in Nikolaiv, and around 10 years later he was appointed rabbi of the city and rabbi of around 40 villages in the area. He was Rosh of the Kollelim established by the Tzemach Tzedek and was close with 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, Rabbanit Chana, that “Rabbi Avraham David excelled with his sharp wisdom, amazing skills, and wide-ranging knowledge of the sea that is the Talmud.”
