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Chok LeYisrael Vayikra & Bamidbar. Zhitomir, 1856–1857. Copy Signed by a Grandson of the Mahari”l of Yanovitch. - 1 . Chok LeYisrael – Vayikra. Zhitomir, 1857. 236 leaves. 17.8 cm. Two title pages. Signed at the head of the title page: ”Hakatan, Shneur Zalman, son of R. Yaakov Mordechai Tver, Sohn Singer.” Rabbi Shneur Zalman Singer was born in Tver, Lithuania, in 1813, the eldest son of Rabbi Yaakov Mordechai Tver, one of the foremost disciples of the Alter Rebbe, the Mitteler Rebbe, and the Tzemach Tzedek. He was a grandson, through his mother, of the Mahari”l of Yanovitch, brother of the Alter Rebbe. Born shortly after the passing of his great-uncle, the Alter Rebbe, he was named Shneur Zalman in his honor. During his childhood, the family moved to Mogilev, where his father served as rabbi. Around 1830 he married Rachel, daughter of R. Baruch, a disciple of the Mitteler Rebbe. In 1832, following the directive of the Tzemach Tzedek, his father emigrated to the Holy Land with his family and settled in Hebron. In 1835, R. Shneur Zalman likewise immigrated to the Holy Land at the Tzemach Tzedek's instruction, serving as administrator of the Chabad Kollel, and settled in Hebron alongside his father. R. Shneur Zalman served as the ba'al tefillah and cantor in the Chabad synagogue in Hebron and later in Jerusalem, earning the nickname ”R. Zalman Singer.” After several years in Hebron, he moved to Jerusalem, where he devoted himself to Torah study in the local Chassidic kollel. A distinguished Torah scholar, he was also known in Jerusalem as ”R. Shneur Zalman of Hebron” and ”the Chabadnik, ” reflecting both his origins and his Chabad affiliation. He passed away on 14 Kislev 1883 and was buried on the Mount of Olives. Among his descendants was his daughter Perel, wife of Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman of Kompiling, a Jerusalem kabbalist and prominent member of the Karlin–Stolin Chassidic community, progenitor of the Jerusalem Grossman family and brother-in-law of Rabbi Shimon Menashe Chaikin. 2. Chok LeYisrael –Bamidbar. Zhitomir, 1856. 216 leaves. Two title pages.