Sefer Chinuch Beit Yehuda, homilies on Kabbalah and Chasidut, by Rebbe Ya'akov Zvi Yalish [Yoles], Rabbi of Dynów, author of Melo HaRo'im. Warsaw: Nathan Schriftgiesser, 1869. First edition.

Approbations by prominent Rebbes and Rabbis in Poland.

Ownership inscription of the Radatz Chen on title page. R. David Zvi Chen (1846-1925), outstanding Torah scholar and leading Chabad rabbi. He was a renowned figure in Chabad circles, famous for his holiness and piety, and one of only three Rabbis who received a Semicha from the Rebbe Maharash. In 1883, he was appointed Rabbi of the city of Chernigov, succeeding his father, R. Peretz Chen. During WWI, he hosted a group of students of the Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in his city and in his home, eventually, this nucleus developed into a branch of the yeshiva. In 1925, he Immigrated to Eretz Israel and taught Torah in the Torat Emet Yeshiva. His gravesite is in the plot of the Chabad Rabbis buried on the Mount of Olives. He was the progenitor of large families of Chassidim, active on behalf of the Jewish People. His son R. Menachem Mendel served in the Rabbinate of the city of Nizhyn. His granddaughter was the poet Zelda (Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky), who wrote several poems depicting the impressive figure of her grandfather, comparing him to Avraham Avinu.

R. Ya'akov Zvi Yalish [Yoles], Rabbi of Dynów (1778-1825), an illustrious Galician Torah sage and Chassid, was born in Peremyshlyany and raised in the house of his grandfather, R. Yehuda son of R. Zvi, Rabbi of Medzhibozh. He was a disciple of R. Moshe Teitelbaum, author of Yismach Moshe. Served in the rabbinates of Dynów, Głogów Małopolski (Glogov) and Gusakov. Eventually he left the Rabbinate and settled in his native city of Peremyshlyany. Close disciple of the Chozeh of Lublin, the Magid of Kozienice and R. Mendel of Rymanów. He cites their teachings in his books introducing them as heard from "my teacher". Proficient in revealed and hidden Torah, outstanding Torah scholar and prolific author, he wrote 27 books, of which only the following were printed: Melo HaRo'im – Halachic rules, Kehillat Ya'akov – Kabblistic rules, Yashresh Ya'akov, Emet L'Ya'akov on the Torah, and others. His glosses on the Talmud and on the Mishnayot were printed at the end of the Vilna Talmud and in all the following editions.

Including an additional printed front cover; list of donors on final leaf.

[1] printed front cover, [8], 33, 35-52 ff. (lacking leaf 34). 23 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases and wear, Large open tear to leaf 35, affecting text. New binding.