His father, R. Yitzhak Itzig Auerbach was a Polish rabbi who lived in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was first rabbi at Dobria, near Kalisz, then at Plock; later he succeeded his father, Hayyim Auerbach, as rabbi of Lencziza, Poland. He wrote "Divre Hayyim" (Words of Life), Breslau, 1852, a pilpulistic disquisition on the Shulhan 'Aruk, and on other rabbinical codes ("poskim"). His work includes a pilpulistic treatise, "Mayim Hayyim" (Living Waters), by his father, Hayyim Auerbach, and additions and notes by the author's brother Eliezer.

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