Sefer Tehillim with Diglei Hodaya V’Hamitzvah an anthology of halachos on the 613 mitzvos and division of the Tikkunei HaZohar into the 30 days of the month by Rabbi Yehuda Yudel Landau.

With Seder Maamados by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel of Apta. And a siddur with prayers for the whole year in Chassidic rite (based on the Tefillah Yesharah siddur printed in Radvil and Mezhibuz. Chassidic tradition relates that this siddur was originally printed under the supervision of the Apter Rav.)

Zhitomir, 1866. First edition. Printed by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shapira, grandson of the Slavita Rav.

Page Count: Tehillim: 27-440, 221-225, [11] Sides. Lacking 13 leaves at the beginning, but the Tehillim itself is complete.


Page 55 with small hole affecting a single character, damage affecting text to page 97 & 98, page 111 damage affecting a few characters, tear to text of page 183 but not missing text, damage to page 220 somewhat affecting text.

Siddur, Maamados and Tikkun Seudah: 212, 57-64, 61-64, 2 sides. Lacking 2 pages at the beginning & 13 pages at the end.

Page 32 with damage lightly affecting text, light damage to text of page 37, varying degrees of damage to text of pages 38-51, 53.

19.8 Cm.

The Sefer Tehillim of the Chassidic Masters:

Sefer Tehillim with Diglei Hodaya V’Hamitzvah was the Tehillim preferred by the great Chassidic masters, many of whom davened and learned from this edition of Tehillim, which became known as a segulah. (See the approbations of the Maggid of Trisk and Rabbi Dovid of Tolna to the Josephov Edition, 1875.)

The present edition was printed anonymously, although the author’s name is mentioned in the later Josefov edition (1875).

Rabbi Yehuda Yudel Landau was a shochet u’bodek who spent many years in the home of the Admor Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin (Shu”t Birkas Yosef, Yoreh Deah Ch. 11). Rabbi Yudel ultimately journeyed to Eretz Yisrael where he passed away at an old age in the year 1885.


Overall Good-Fair condition, stains and water stains, pages 97,99,220,37-53, have paper tape repairs with missing text, new brown leather binding

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Tehillim Diglei Hodaya V’Hamitzvah & Maamados with Nusach Sephard-Chassidic Siddur. Zhitomir, 1866. Lacking copy.

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