Rabbi David Leykes (Hebrew: דוד לייקס) (1698/1699 – 10 April 1799) was a Hasidic Av Beit Din in the city of Bar and one of the disciples of Baal Shem Tov.
[7] Leykes was known to have given the only Haskamah in the Agaret HaKodesh (1793/1794) of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk.
[8] Works of his are also featured in the היחס מטשרנוביל ורוז'ין (Connection of Chernobyl and Ruzhyn) and the תיקוני הזבח (Corrections of the Sacrifice) (Odessa 1882).
[10] The cemetery where he was buried was destroyed by the Soviet government and was located by Hasid Israel Meir Gabbay who attempted to erect a monument there, but was denied permission by local authority.
According to his tombstone, he promised his descendants that if they visited and prayed at his grave on the Rosh Chodesh of Elul, they would be guaranteed salvation.