Book of Bamidbar, with Targumim and commentaries of Rashi, Baal HaTurim and Or HaChaim, and commentaries of the Chida on the Torah, Haftarot and Five Megillot, with Shabbat prayers. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapiro, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, [1854].
At the end of the volume are printed Sephardic-rite Shabbat prayers.
On last leaf, chart of moladot (1854-1882).

[1], 3-145; 9, [1] leaves. Lacking first title page. 25 cm. Fair condition; some leaves in middle of book in good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Light wear. Tears and open tears, including open tears to title page, affecting text, repaired with paper (strips mounted around all margins of title page, over title frame and parts of text). Tears affecting text and many creases on last leaf. Old binding, worn and damaged, with repaired spine.

This part is not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and does not appear in the NLI catalogue.

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Chok LeYisrael, with Yosef LaChok by the Chida. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapiro, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1857. Complete five-volume set.
Two title pages for each volume. Some words on first title pages printed in red ink.

Five volumes. Bereshit: 246 leaves. Shemot: 238 leaves. Vayikra: 236 leaves. Bamidbar: 216 leaves. Devarim: 236, 229-231 leaves. 17.5-18.5 cm. Fair condition; Bamidbar and Devarim volumes in fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains and traces of former dampness. Wear and creases. Tears, including small open tears. Damage and black tape strip repairs, affecting part of title frames. Worming in several places, slightly affecting text. Detached leaves and gatherings. Inscriptions, signatures and stamps to some volumes. Old bindings, damaged, non-uniform (some leather bindings with repaired spines), partially detached, with heavy wear.

Handwritten inscriptions on front and back endpapers.
The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book records a Bereshit volume dated 1856 (based on a copy sold by Kedem in auction 19, lot 52), but the NLI copy and the present copy are dated 1857, like the other parts.

The Significance and Segulah of Reciting Chok LeYisrael Daily
The custom of reciting passages daily from the Bible, Mishnah, Talmud and Zohar was established by the Arizal, who observed this custom himself. The order printed in Chok LeYisrael is for the most part based on the writings of the Arizal in various places. The Chida added to this regimen daily halachic passages, taken from the Rambam's Mishneh Torah and Shulchan Aruch, as well as passages from ethical books. The Chida's additions are called Yosef LaChok. The purpose of the Chok LeYisrael order of study, as explained in the writings of the Arizal, is both for the perfection and tikkun of the soul, nourishing it through the study of the various parts of the Torah, and for effecting tikkunim and yichudim in the upper spheres.
Many prominent Chassidic leaders, and especially the Tzaddikim of the Chernobyl dynasty, spoke in sublime terms of the segulah of the Chok LeYisrael study regimen, and attested that it provides a tikkun for sins in matters of holiness. Rebbe Yisrael Dov of Vilednik writes in his book She'erit Yisrael (Shaar HaShovavim, homily I) that studying Chok LeYisrael serves as Tikkun HaBrit, "as I received from my master [Rebbe Mordechai of Chernobyl], that true tikkun is achieved by attaching oneself to both the Written and Oral Law, through Chok LeYisrael… and therefore in these times with the approach of the Messiah, the Yosef LaChok book has been published, authored by the Chida, disciple of R. Chaim ibn Attar the Or HaChaim, who embodies the lights of both Mashiach ben David and Mashiach ben Yosef, akin to the kabbalistic concept of an all-encompassing Tzaddik capable of effecting a tikkun for the imperfections of the entire Jewish people".
Rebbe Avraham of Trisk, son of Rebbe Mordechai of Chernobyl, writes: "And following the prayers, one should recite Chok LeYisrael, every single day unfailingly… and through this he causes G-d to be filled with mercy for the Jewish people" (Magen Avraham, 96a).
Great rabbis of previous generations have spoken of great segulot attained by reciting Chok LeYisrael. Some wrote that it is also a segulah for livelihood (the Rebbe of Shinova is said to have based this on the statement of the Talmud, "Chok means sustenance"). R. Yaakov Rokeach, in his foreword Maaseh Rokeach to Chok LeYisrael, wrote: "It is a mitzvah for every Jew to buy himself a Chok LeYisrael, to read from it every day…".

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Sefer Chasidim by R. Yehudah HeChasid, with commentary by R. David Aptrod and the Brit Olam commentary by the Chida. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapiro, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1856.

288 pages. Approx. 22 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Wear. Tears, including large open tear to title page, affecting title frame, and open tears to other leaves, slightly affecting text. Worming, slightly affecting text. Stamps deleted with ink. Old binding, worn.

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Ein Yaakov, Part I, on Tractates Berachot-Beitzah. Zhitomir: R. Aryeh Leib Shapiro, grandson of the rabbi of Slavita, 1862.
Two title pages. Some words on both title pages in red ink.
Ownership inscriptions in pencil.

40, 43-126, 125-245 leaves. 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear to some leaves. Light worming and minor tears to margins of title page and several other leaves. New binding.

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Assorted collection of ten books printed in Russia-Poland in the 1800s-1830s. Halachic books, novellae and ethical books. Some include stamps, ownership inscriptions and lengthy handwritten glosses.
See Hebrew description for a list of books.

10 books. Size and condition vary. Most in new bindings. The books have not been thoroughly examined and are being sold as is.


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