Tehillim Diglei Hodaya – With Siddur Nusach HaAri (Sefard) – Zhitomir, 1866

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Tehillim, Diglei Hodaya VeHaMitzva. Seder Maamadot by the holy Rabbi of Apta (Opatów) and order of year-round prayers according to Nusach Sefard (Nusach HaAri). Zhitomir: R. Aryeh Leib Shapira, grandson of the rabbi of Slavita, 1866. Two title pages. On the first title page, the word Jerusalem is emphasized in red ink.
Many approbations from rabbis of Eretz Israel. Large pre-subscribers list from Eretz Israel and Russia (including names of many prominent rabbis and rebbes). An additional list of pre-subscribers (the four sons of the Rebbe of Skver and others) appears at the beginning of Seder Maamadot, which is followed by the siddur of R. Zalman of Liadi. Before the book of Tehillim, the order of handwashing replacing a ritual bath appears, compiled by the maggid R. Mordechai of Chernobyl, from the Baal Shem Tov.
Ownership inscription of R. Yudel Rosenberg, posek in Warsaw (R. Yehuda Yudel Rosenberg, 1860-1935, a leading Torah scholar in Poland and Canada. Author of Niflaot Maharal, Zohar Torah, Refael HaMalach and other books on Halacha, Kabbalah, Protections and Segulot, Biography of the Maharal and the Golem, and history of Chassidism). Stamps of his son, R. Avraham Yitzchak Rosenberg of Montreal. Handwritten inscriptions, of Kabbalistic Kavanot and Segulot (at the beginning of the Hallel prayer, an interesting acronymic allusion appears in handwriting).
[4], 5-440, 221-225, [12] pages; [4], 112, 57-64, 61-64, 28 pages. 21 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear and stains. Worming to a few leaves. Marginal paper repairs to first leaf and last three leaves. New, elaborate leather binding.
Books and Siddurim Printed in Russia and Poland, Slavita and Zhitomir
Books and Siddurim Printed in Russia and Poland, Slavita and Zhitomir