A book written by a young Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva student has earned the praise of leading Israeli rabbis.

Moshe-Chaim Chanunu’s Ateret Moshe, a collection of elucidations on the Talmud and the Code of Jewish Law, received approbations from former Israeli Chief Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef and current Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and other rabbinic authorities.

Chanunu, who studies in the Kfar Chabad village near the Ben Gurion Airport, completed learning the Talmud for the first time as a 17-year-old study in Kiryat Gat. When he presented his book to Rabbi Meir Mazuz, a sought-after halachic decisor and head of the Kisei Rachamim yeshiva in B’nei Brak, the rabbi gave the student a 50 shekel bill in return.

“The Lubavitcher Rebbe always said that one must pay for a book,” Mazuz told Chanunu, referring to the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.

The rabbi said that he had visited the Rebbe’s resting place in Cambria Heights, N.Y., many times.