Six different editions of Likutei Amarim – Tanya, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe, printed in Vilna between 1900-1936.

• Vilna: Widow and brothers Romm, 1900. Edition of the Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch.

• Vilna: Widow and brothers Romm, 1909. On page 2a is a declaration of the widow and brothers Romm that the printing rights of the Tanya have been sold "to Rebbe Shalom Dov Ber of Lubavitch… on behalf of the Tomchei Temimim institution" (Vilna, 25 Tamuz, 1909). This deed of sale was printed in all subsequent editions of the Tanya. Stamps: "Chaikel Lunski, Vilna" – Chaim Chaikel Lunski (1881-1942), Yiddish and Hebrew author, Jewish-Lithuanian folklorist and bibliographer, librarian in the Strashun library for about 50 years and historian of Vilna Jewry. Perished in the Holocaust, in the Vilna ghetto.

• Vilna: Widow and brothers Romm, 1912. Stamp.

• Vilna: Widow and brothers Romm, 1923. Stamps: "Shimon Aharon son of R. M. HaLevi Hershkovitz, rabbi and Maggid in Warsaw". Handwritten marginal glosses on first leaf.

• Vilna: Romm, 1930. Signatures and stamps.

• Vilna: Romm, 1937. Shneur bookshop: Zalman Shmotkin, Warsaw.

6 volumes. Varying size and condition. Overall good condition.

Five editions of Likutei Amarim – Tanya, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe.

• [Munich]: Kehot, 1947. Printed in Munich after the Holocaust for Chassidic Holocaust survivors (She'erit HaPletah), by the son-in-law of the Rebbe Rayatz and director of Kehot, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson (later the Lubavitcher Rebbe); his introduction on the reverse side of the title page.

• Brooklyn, New York: Kehot, 1953. Corrected edition printed by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Includes corrections, indexes, notes and bibliography; preface by the Rebbe.

• Brooklyn, New York: Kehot, 1953. Small-scale facsimile (pocket edition).

• Tanya, translated into Yiddish (by R. Uriel Zimmer). Two parts in two volumes. Brooklyn, New York: published by Kehot, printed by Ezra, Part I – 1955 / Part II – 1958.

• Djerba (Tunisia): published by Kehot, printed by Boaz Hadad and Chai ben Yeshuah Hadad, 1968.

6 volumes. Varying size and condition. Overall good condition. Original bindings.

Collection of parts of the Shulchan Aruch HaRav printed in Zhitomir by the presses of R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapiro (grandsons of the Rabbi of Slavita), and R. Avraham Shalom Shadov, between 1855-1869.

See Hebrew description for list of books.

9 volumes. Varying size and condition. Good to fair-good overall condition. New binding.

Order of prayers for the whole year according to the Arizal rite, with commentary by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Baal HaTanya. Kopust (Kopys): R. Yisrael Yoffe, [1816].

First edition of the Rebbe's Siddur with laws and Chassidic discourses (Siddur Im Dach), edited by his son the Mitteler Rebbe.

Incomplete copies – missing title pages and other leaves. The leaves are detached and derive from various different copies; without binding. The present items include leaves from both parts of the Siddur:

• Part 1a (weekday Shacharit): 26-32, 34-35, 37-38, 82-102 leaves. Missing 74 leaves (original: [2], 104 leaves).

• Part 1b (meals, blessings, marriage, circumcision and Tikun Chatzot): 1-21, 23-33 leaves. Missing 22 leaves (original: 1-54 leaves).

• Part 2a (Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh prayers): 4-68 leaves. Missing first 3 leaves (original: 68 leaves).

• Part 2b (festival and high holiday prayers): 1-88, 91-96 leaves. Missing 5 leaves (original: 99 leaves).

Approx. 19-20 cm. Varying condition. Most leaves in good to fair-good condition. On some leaves: creases, stains and wear; tears and open tears affecting text; repaired with paper. Inscriptions and stamps.

Siddur Im Dach

The Chabad Siddur, which Chabad Chassidim call Siddur Im Dach (an abbreviation of Divrei Elohim Chaim), contains the text of the Siddur, the anthology of laws and Chassidic discourses originally delivered mainly on Shabbat to his sons and several elite disciples. The text, laws and two discourses (HaKol Kol Yaakov and He'arah LeTikun Chatzot) were composed by the Baal HaTanya, and printed in his lifetime in several editions. The other discourses were recorded by his son the Mitteler Rebbe and edited for press by his grandson the Tzemach Tzedek.

Some of the discourses were recorded and edited by R. Dov Ber in his own style, with the addition of explanations and expansions, and some of the essays are a verbatim transcription of his father's words, without any of his own additions. In his foreword, R. Dov Ber describes the system of recording his father's discourses. He writes about the discourses which he edited and expanded, how he reviewed them time and again to ensure they are understandable and accessible to people of all levels. Conversely, the discourses transcribed verbatim were edited and approved by the Alter Rebbe himself.

A large portion of the essays printed in the siddur are discourses on the Zohar delivered by the Baal HaTanya regularly on Shabbat eves. His son writes regarding these discourses that it is plainly obvious that the Rebbe benefited from Divine inspiration (foreword to Beurei HaZohar, Kopust, 1816).

Collection of Siddurim of the Baal HaTanya, according to the Torah Or version by R. Avraham David Lavut, Rabbi of Nikolayev, accompanied by his works Shaarei Tefillah (Shaar HaKolel) and Netiv HaChaim on Derech HaChaim.

See Hebrew description for list of books.

7 volumes. Varying size and condition. Overall good to good-fair condition. Signatures and stamps. New and old bindings. The collection was not thoroughly examined, and is being sold as is.

Siddur Torah Or

The Siddur compiled by the Alter Rebbe, Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – Siddur HaRav – was printed during his lifetime in several editions, in Shklow and Kopust. From the Alter Rebbe's passing until 1886, the Siddur was reprinted in dozens of editions. In many of the editions, the printers did not carefully preserve the accurate text of the prayers and laws, and in some editions they combined the Alter Rebbe's text with texts of other prevalent Siddurim. In the 1880s, R. Avraham David Lavut, Rabbi of Nikolayev (Mykolaiv; maternal grandfather of the Lubavitcher Rebbe), began studying and researching the original text of Siddur HaRav. To that end, he searched for editions of the Siddur published in the lifetime of the Baal HaTanya. Upon finding such a Siddur, he set to work proofreading and correcting the text of Siddur HaRav according to the siddur he found. In 1886 he printed the Siddur HaRav in Vilna under a new title – "Siddur Torah Or".

However, immediately after the first version of the Siddur was published, R. Lavut obtained another edition of Siddur HaRav, published in the lifetime of the Alter Rebbe, which contained some variations. In light of this, R. Lavut produced a new, corrected edition of Siddur Torah Or – the Vilna 1889 edition. But the same event repeated itself – immediately after printing the 1889 edition, R. Lavut obtained a third edition of the Siddur printed in the Alter Rebbe's lifetime, and he began to edit a third, updated edition of Siddur Torah Or. This third edition was published after R. Lavut's passing in 1896.

The Siddur, published by R. Lavut, was supplemented by two of his own works: "Shaarei Tefillah", focusing on the sources, versions, and traditions on which the Alter Rebbe based his Siddur text and customs, and "Netiv HaChaim", which compares contradicting rulings in "Derech HaChaim" by R. Yaakov of Lissa, and the Alter Rebbe's Siddur and Shulchan Aruch.