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Sefer Rav Tuv, Sighet. With marginal notes in the handwriting of his close confident, the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Aharon Schwartz. First edition. - Rav Tuv, By the holy Rebbe, author of Yitav Lev, with the annotations and notations of his great confident, the eminent and righteous R. Yitzchak Aharon Schwartz, head of the ritual slaughterers in Sighet, later interred in Jerusalem. A work of Chassidic exposition on the Torah by the holy Rabbi Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum of Sighet, author of Yitav Lev. First edition Lemberg, 1889 Brought to print by the author’s grandson, the R. Moshe David Teitelbaum, rabbi of Mad’yar-Lapos in Romania. He also published the responsa Avnei Tzedek of his grandfather in 1885, and in his introduction there he relates that his grandfather entrusted the manuscripts to him for editing and preparation for print, and that in his lifetime he had succeeded in printing the work Yitav Panim shortly before his passing, and recounts: ‘וכשהבאתיו סמוך למיטתו, שמח לקראתו, נשקו מכל צד בעזרתו, ועיניו זלגו דמעות מרוב שמחתו, שזכה לראותו, ואח”כ קראני סמוך למיטתו השלימה, ואור פניו כזהרי חמה, ויאמר אלי, בני יקירי, הנני מביע לך ברכה ותודה עצומה על אשר מלאת רצוני זה כמה, ישלם ה' פעלך ותהי משכורתך שלימה. מהר קח לך עת ועונה, להביא ספר שו”ת 'אבני צדק' לבית הדפוס ראשונה, ואת ספר 'רב טוב' באחרונה'. On the final leaf appear two letters of the author: ”ע”ד המכשלה שנהייתה בעשיית היינות ... שלא יכשל באיסור חמץ בפסח ויין נסך”. The eminent and righteous Rabbi Yitzchak Aharon Schwartz, of blessed memory: Inscription on the flyleaf: ”זה הספר שייך שייך לי לשמי הק' יצחק אהרן שווארץ שו”ב דק”ק סיגוט … סיגוט …”. The righteous R. Yitzchak Aharon Schwartz, ritual slaughterer in Sighet, was the son of R. Nachum of Voranov, maternal uncle of the author of Kol Aryeh, and son-in-law of the holy kabbalis R. Zvi Aryeh, rabbinical judge of Sighet, author of Imrei Bina on the Song of Songs. The Imrei Bina was published in 1897 by R. Yitzchak Aharon. A wondrous account of his betrothal to the daughter of R. Zvi Aryeh appears in the book Siach Zekenim – A Collection of Novel Insights from the Schwarz Family (p. 20), and in his wondrous biography there. He travelled often to the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, and there was close to his relative, the author of Kol Aryeh. The writings of the Ari word for word: In 1907 he ascended to the Holy City of Jerusalem, suffered the tribulations of the Land, and lost his eyesight. The holy author of Shomrei Emunim was asked upon returning to Hungary what was said in Jerusalem of the Hungarian rabbis. He answered: “What is said of the rabbis I did not hear, but this I heard: they tell of a slaughterer from Sighet who came to settle in Jerusalem, and lost his sight until he could not discern even a single written letter, yet he delivered public lessons for several years in the writings of the Ari, of blessed memory, reciting them verbatim, letter for letter, without omission or excess!” When the Yitav Lev was appointed rabbi of Sighet, he brought with him his ritual slaughterer, R. Yitzchak Aharon, and after some years appointed him head of the slaughterers in Sighet and its environs. The holy Yitav Lev likewise mentions him in Shu”t Avnei Tzedek (Yoreh De’ah 91): ‘ומלבד כל זאת אגלה לו סוד שאמר לי השו”ב המובהק דפה מהרי”א נ”י’, and again (Even Ha’ezer 22): ‘הן אמת שהשו”ב המומחה דפה מהרי”א נ”י הראה לי מקום בספר גדולי הקדש’. Of his son it is written: “To quench his thirst for Torah, the Imrei Yosef sought and found for him an excellent tutor, the eminent R. Eliezer Schwartz, who was later appointed rabbinical judge in the Hungarian town of Sarsapotok, son of the head of the slaughterers of Sighet, R. Yitzchak Aharon Schwartz, whose good name preceded him as a great scholar and a master of brilliant reasoning, and the Rebbe of Sighet, author of Kedushas Yom Tov, likewise engaged him as tutor for his gifted son, Rabbi Yoelish—the Rebbe of Satmar. In his youth R. Eliezer Schwartz studied with the Chakal Yitzchak of Spinka for several years day and night, and continued studying with him at night even after the Chakal Yitzchak had ascended his father’s seat and led his holy community” (R. A. Sorasky, Shosheles Spinka). Another son, R. Mordechai, continued in his father’s path as head of the slaughterers of Sighet, and authored a commentary on Simla Chadasha entitled Lotah Be-Simla (Sighet 1914). His grandson, R. Mordechai Zvi son of R. Rafael Schwartz, served in the rabbinate in Hungary, in England, and in the United States (see HaMaor, year 14, issue 3, “On a Sage Not Properly Eulogized”). On 11 Adar 1920 R. Yitzchak Aharon passed away. He was buried upon the heights of the Mount of Olives. On his tombstone, which he prepared in his lifetime, he instructed to engrave: ”קניתי מחיים ר' יצחק אהרן ב”ר נחום אשר שימש ק”ק סיגוט ושו”ב מ”ח שנים, נ' י”א אדר תר”פ. הסתופף בצילו הטהור של מרן בעל רברי חיים מצאנז זיע”א שמונה עשרה פעמים”.