Hasidim say that since the Besht says: “Is he, not a man (Adam)…?” they think these are the writings of R. Adam Besht. An indication of this is that R. Adam was also from Warsaw and the [author of the] Zoref was called “the smith (zoref) from Warsaw.”
Old hasidim knew that R. Adam came from Warsaw [side comment:] (?). The Zoref was passed in inheritance from the Besht to [his son] R. Hirsh Besht [d. 1779], from him to R. Arele Titever and then to R. Abraham Skverer and later to R. Isaac Skverer. To R. Israel [side comment:] (?).
R. Pinchas Landau once saw the Zoref and the marginal notes were written in the Besht’s own handwriting in red ink. The last person to possess the Zoref was Faygele, a daughter of the Trisker and the widow of R. Israel.
I.F.
Pinchas Landau
