Siach Emuna, Tehilot David, Zichron Shmuel et al.

LABA, ELIEZER TZVI OF PATZUNEL (NEAR KOVNO).

ca.1920-1930

Over 40 notebooks containing ca. 3000 leaves. Written in a neat Ashkenazic hand.

Laba (1863-1935) was rabbi in Lithuania. He studied in Slabodka and the Kollel Kovno and was ordained by R. Yitzchak Elchanan and others. In his later years he moved to Shavel and was close to the great kabbalist R. Shlomo Elyashiv, the "Leshem". Both R. Y. Kahaneman of Ponevitch and R. Kook praised Laba’s scholarship and piety. Among the many notebooks are eulogies and memorials for R. Yitzchak Elchanan of Kovno, The Gadol of Minsk and his son-in-law R. Eliezer Rabinowitz; R. Yehuda of Tavrig; R. Samuel Avigdor Faivelson of Plungian; R. Ephraim Lap (author of Zivchei Ephram); R. Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk; the Chofetz Chaim; R. Shlomo Eliashiv (the"Leshem"); R. Meir Atlas of Shavel; R. Hillel Klein of New York; R. Yaakov Mazeh of Moscow; as well as family memebers. The notebooks include scores of essays and sermons on numerous religious subjects, citing an extensive range of the entire gamut of Rabbinical, Kabbalistic and Chassidic literature from: R Saadia Gaon to the Mahral of Prague, Shaarei Orah, the Ari Zal, to R. Menasseh b. Israel, R. Yonahan Eibuschetz, R. Moshe Chaim Luzzato, the Vilna Gaon, R. Chaim of Volozin, R. Yitzchak Eisik Chaver to R. Yaakov Yoseph of Ostraha (R. Yaivi), Or Pnei Moshe, Tzemach Tzeded, Magen David -Tchernobel, R, Moshe Sofer (Chatham Sopher) R. Hillel Lichtenstein, R. Yoseph Zechariah Stern Of Shavel (Zecher Yehoseph), etc. - A selection of Laba’s writings have been published by his descendants in Siach Emuna (1995)