Siddur Tikkunei Shabbat with Derech HaChaim according to the Sephard custom. Zhitomir, in the printing press of the grandsons of the Rabbi of Slavita, Rabbi Chanina Lipa and Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Shapria. Two parts.
Specifications: [2] 428: 246 pages. 20 cm. Additional title page for part two. Missing the last leaf, and apparently also missing the detailed title page at the beginning.
Unique Features: The prayer book is bibliographically unknown.
Background: A prayer book in the Sephard liturgy, compiled by Rabbi Moshe of Zalshin. Contains prayers for the days of the week, Shabbat, festivals and the High Holy Days, with Ethics of the Fathers, Pesach Haggadah, Selichot, Hoshanot and Yotzrot, laws of mezuzah, mourning and more.
Condition: Fine. Professionally restored worming holes. On page 59 is a restored tear with damage to text. A few professional margin completions. New leather binding.
Sayings of Chazal, rare medrashim, elucidations and commentaries, arranged in encyclopedic entries, by Rabbi Eliyahu HaKohen of Izmir.
Specifications: 328 pages. 26 cm.
Unique features: Printed at the press of the partners Rabbi Chananya Lipa and Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Shapiro, grandsons of the Rabbi of Slavuta.
Condition: Very fine. Minimal aging stains. Original, slightly worn binding, with reinforced spine and corners.
Articles of mussar by Rabbi Yedaya Hapenini Habedershi, with the “Peirush Maspik” from the Cremona edition.
Specifications: 65 pages. 16 cm.
Unique features: Printed by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shapiro, grandson of the Rabbi of Slavuta.For more information regarding the author, refer to: Ben Yaakov, Otzar HaSefarim, p. 288, n. 329.
Condition: Very fine. Simple binding.
Two works of mussar and daily habits printed in Zhitomir.
A. Tzror HaChaim. By Rabbi Moshe Chagiz. Zhitomir, 1857.
Specifications: 38 pages. 14 cm. At the press of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shapiro, grandson of the Rabbi of Slavuta. Condition: Fine.
B. Avodat HaKodesh. By Rabbi Chaim Yosef Dovid Azulai (Chida). Zhitomir, 1857. Specifications: 36 pages. At the press of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shapiro, grandson of the Rabbi of Slavuta.
Condition: Fine. Dark stain on the last pages, and tiny tear to the last leaf.
Holy behaviors and wondrous ethics from the words of early sages and the Zohar HaKadosh, regarding sanctity and “tikun hayesod”, by Rabbi Yosef Av Beit Din of Dubno, teacher of the author of the Kav HaYashar.
Specifications: [1], 74, [1] leaf. 20 cm.
Unique features: The book opens with an approbation from Rabbi Aharon of Chernobyl, who testifies “the Yesod Yosef does not move off of the pure table of my father, the holy Admor” [Rabbi Mordechai of Chernobyl]. He then asks everyone to purchase the work and read it to the best of his ability so that he can receive additional blessings. The publisher merited a blessing from the Admor Yitzchak of Skver for the printing of this work.
Condition: Fine, aging stains. Some of the leaves are detached. Simple binding.