All-inclusive prayer book according to custom of Ari, section two for Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh, festivals and High Holy Days. Chabad-custom prayer book, with commentary on words according to Ari, laws and Chassidic articles by Alter Rebbe Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi. Edited by his son, Mitteler Rebbe Rabbi Dov Ber. Kopys, [1816]. First edition.
Copy upon bluish paper with especially wide margins.
Includes: Kavanat HaMikveh, acceptance of Shabbat, Mincha prayer for Friday afternoon, Arvit prayer for Shabbat, order of Shabbat meal, Shacharit prayer for Shabbat, chapter for Rosh Chodesh, chapter for festivals, chapter for month of Elul, chapter for Rosh HaShanah, chapter for blowing of Shofar, chapter for Yom Kippur, chapter for Sukkot, chapter for Lulav [palm frond], chapter for Chanukah, chapter for Purim, chapter for Pesach, chapter for Lag Ba’Omer and chapter for Shavu’ot.
In introduction to first section, his son, Rebbe Rabbi Dov Ber “son of genius author”, notes that he edited and prepared book for print: “I have collected from several pamphlets and copies which I possess… as well as many pamphlets from body of writing… which the rabbi proofread… and which found favor in his eyes”. [Halachic rulings in this prayer book constitute the Batra [last] edition of his Halachic opinion, and serve as basis for Chabad customs which are practiced until recent generation; see introduction of Sefer ‘Piskei HaSiddur’ by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Na’eh].
[1], 3-68; 99 leaves (missing: leaf 2 from first count). 25X20 cm. Wide margins. Bluish paper. Fair condition. Stains. Damage, tears and moth holes with damage to text in some sections – professionally restored. Several handwritten glosses. New binding.

Seder Tefilla, according to the Nusach of the Ari, with laws of netilat yadayim and birkot ha'nehenin. Arranged according to the Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, with Derech HaChaim. Vilnius, 1868. Printed by Yosef Yehuda Re'em.
The first Nusach Chabad siddur printed in a useful shortened accessible edition.
[1], 218 leaves (436 pages). 21 cm. Good-fair condition, wear and detached leaves, foxing. Missing binding.
This edition is very rare and does not appear in the bibliographic listings of Chabad books. In the Bibliography Institute CD Listing 0310618 this edition is mentioned as an aside while describing the edition of the Shnei Me'orot siddur printed in Vilna in 1873 - written on the reverse side of its title page (in Russian): According to the 1868 edition.

Manuscript of articles of Chabad Hassidism, by Alter Rebbe Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi between 1802-1807, and articles by his son, Mitteler Rebbe, Rabbi Dov Ber of Lubavitch. Articles include sermons from Parashat Va’Etchanan and Parashat Ekev which were delivered in Lubavitch in 1814, at beginning of period of leadership of the Mitteler Rebbe, [these articles appear in his book Sha’arei Teshuva, and article pertaining to Kriyat Shema appears in his book Imrei Bina]. Early writing, c. 1810.
Back page contains ownership notation by Rabbi “Menachem Mendel son of Zelig of Shybesh—" and Rabbi “Aryeh Leib son of Rabbi Mendel known as Leibli Kamnetzker”.
134 leaves of which approx. 244 pages in dense writing. 21 cm. Good-fair condition, many stains. Minor moth stains. New binding.

Sefer Likutei Amarim Tanya, by Alter Rebbe Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Vilnius, 1912. Signature of Rabbi “Tzvi Hirsch Waxman”. Last page contains fine inscription “to my dear and beloved future son-in-law”, handwritten and signed by his father-in-law Ga’on Rabbi “Shlomo Yehuda Leib Eliezrov” who ascribes himself: “grandson (fifth generation) of holy author, the Alter Rebbe”.
Ga’on Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib Eliezrov (1863-1952), born to his father Rabbi Eliezer Shimon Kazarnovsky, grandson of Rabbanit Menucha Rachel Slonim, daughter of Mittler Rebbe and founder of Chabad settlement in Hebron. In 1873 immigrated with his parents to Eretz Israel to holy city of Hebron, absorbed Torah from rabbis of Hebron Rabbi Shimon Menasheh and Rabbi Eliyahu Mani. Sent as rabbinical emissary to Eastern countries and in 1897 was appointed as chief rabbi of Samarkand Bukhara, where his family name was changed to “Eliezrov”.
In 1903 Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib was appointed as rabbi of Ashkenazim in Hebron. Following World War One settled in Jerusalem while appointing Rabbi Ya’akov Yosef Slonim as his successor in Hebron. In Jerusalem he was known as “Rabbi of Hebron” and was among leaders of Chabad in the city.
[1], 163 leaves. 19.5 cm. Good-fair condition, detached leaves. Unbound.

Kitvei Kodesh – Book of Writings by of the Rebbe Rayatz [Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn] from Lubavitch in 1940. Stencil printing, Brooklyn, [about 1941?]. Yiddish.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880-1950, Otzar Harabbanim 8887), the sixth Admor of the House of Habad-Lubavitch, Founder of the Tomhei Temimim together with his father Rabbi Shalom Dov, he became the Admor in 1920. Imprisoned by the Communist authorities and released in 1927, later he went to Poland and from there to Brooklyn, USA. (March 1940).
The volume here contains the first booklets of the speeches of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn in the USA, including articles from the first Purim he celebrated there. Together with a number of articles from previous years [when the Rabbi was in Riga and Batvetsk] and a number of letters. They were printed in Brooklyn and published by the “Hassidim Distribution Office” of Rabbi Abraham Paris, soon after the speeches were delivered in 1940. Apparently these were the first Torah teachings of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn to be printed in the USA. In front of the second booklet from the Seudat Purim, a special sheet is attached in which Rabbi Abraham Paris writes about the importance of reading the article: “It is a great Mitzvah to learn the article ------said on Purim in New York".
Each booklet has independent pagination, [436 pages]. 20 cm. Good condition, a few stains, slight signs of moths in two booklets. Stamped on spine of binding: “Holy wrtings from Lubavitch 1940”. Signatures and stamps of Rabbi Mordechai Levinson.