Lavut, Abraham David. Beith Aharon ve-Hosafoth [concordance of the Bible, providing references to source material in Talmud and Midrashim and seventy other works]

(CHASSIDISM)

Judah Leib ben Eliezer Lipmann Metz

Vilna

1880

FIRST EDITION. With both stamp and autograph signature of author (as all authorized copies)

Chabad scholar, Lavut, author of the much vaunted Sha’ar ha-Kollel (1890), an invaluable appendix to the Siddur of R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi, served for forty years as rabbi of the Russian community of Nikolayev. He was a student of the Tzemach Tzedek, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn of Lubavitch, and maternal ancestor of the late Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (II). See M.M. Laufer, Yemei Melech (1991), pp. 39-55. Lavut greatly expanded the original Beith Aharon (1690), broadening the scope of the references to include works of Kabbalah and Chassidism, as well as adding additional notes to the Talmudim and Midrashim. Needless to say, when he finished enhancing it, it was not the same book at all. The book bears the haskamah (endorsement) of R. Samuel Schneersohn (Mahara”sh), youngest son of the Tzemach Tzedek