Tehillim. Shapira Press. Complete Copy with Maamados. Slavita, 1832
Sefer Tehillim and Maamados with all the Names of Hashem written as the Shem Havayah (Yud-Key-Vav-Key); introductions to each chapter; and the ‘Yehi ratzon’ for Hoshanah Rabba printed in large, clear font. Includes the commentaries of Metzudas Dovid and Metzudas Tzion. This Tehillim was printed by Rabbi Shmuel Avraham, son of the venerable Slavita Rav.
The first pages boast a letter of approbation by the Admor Harav Mordechai of Chernobyl, dated 1826.
“It is known that the great sages of Chassidus yearned to recite Tehillim from the Books of Tehillim printed with holiness and purity by the Rabbinical family of Slavita.”
Slavita, 1832. Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Shapira Press. [2], 178 leaves. Page size; 19 cm. Seder Maamados on leaves [146-] 178 with separate title page dated 1834. Book title, printer’s details and location are printed in red ink on the first title page.
Margins and letters in the headers and margins on some pages are professionally restored. Several words on leaves 77, 108 likewise restored.
Minor holes scattered throughout the copy, professionally restored. Stained at margins; used, over all good copy. Ornate new leather binding with gilded engravings.
“He should accustom himself to learn from a sefer that was printed by G-d-fearing men”. A story is told of one of the great tzaddikim who arrived in a place during the days of Selichos. The [townspeople] gave him a book of Selichos [to recite the prayers], yet he replied that he could not see the letters…until they gave him the Selichos printed by G-d-fearing Jews, presumably the Slavita edition, and he said that now he could see the letters.
“Therefore, one should strive to purchase seforim printed by G-d-fearing men, and especially from the Slavita and Zhitomir Presses [owned] by the Admor of Koritz’s grandchildren, who were exalted printers.” (Taharas Hakodesh Ch. 6 by the Shomer Emunim)
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