Chumash Khok L’Yisrael, Deuteronomy, with the “Yosef LeChok”, Zhitomir 1856. Copy owned by the Tzaddik Rabbi ...

Chumash Khok L’Yisrael, Deuteronomy, with the “Yosef LeChok”, Zhitomir 1856. Copy owned by the Tzaddik Rabbi Yudaleh of Dzikov.

Khok L’Yisrael, 5th section (Deuteronomy), with the commentary Yosef LeChok by the Chida. Printed by the partners, the Shapira brothers, grandsons of the Slavita Rav, Rabbi Chanina and Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel. 462 pages. Two title pages, the first in red ink. No binding, indices detached, worming damage adjacent to the spine (aside from a group of pages where it spreads onto the text), light stains, overall fair condition.

On both sides of a blank opening leaf are signatures of “Y. Horowitz”, whose address is “Hoshea 26, Jerusalem”, and there are many notes in Hebrew and a foreign language testifying that the book was used by the tzaddik Admor Rabbi Yudaleh of Dzikov.

The Tzaddik Rabbi Yehuda Horwitz of Dzikov, known as Rav Yudaleh (1905-1989) was the son of Rabbi Alter Yehezkel Eliyahu Horwitz of Dzikov. He was a rabbi and Admor of the Dzikov-Rofshitz dynasty. His maternal grandfather was the Ahavas Yisrael. He studied under Rabbi Meir Arik in Tarnov. At age 20 he was certified to teach by Rabbi Avraham Mendel Steinberg, the rabbi of Brody. His works include: Imrei Torah on the Torah, Mishnat Yehudah on Masechet Avot, Gilionei Mahari (a collection of notes that he wrote in books that he studied). Since his death many religious works have been published with the additional “Gilionei Mahari” collected from the margins of his works, including the Shulchan Aruch, Chatam Sofer, Noam Elimelech, Avodat HaKodesh by the Hida, Shut Maharsham of Berezhan, Shut Imrei Yosher, and Toldot Yaakov Yosef. His students include important rabbis and admorim and Chassidic figures from the last generation: Admor Rabbi Mordechai Hager of Vizhnitz-Munsey, Rabbi Yaakov Meir Shechter, leaders of the Breslev community shlita; Admor Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Kahane of Toldot Avraham Yitzhak shlita. Admor Rabbi Mordechai Stein of Poltishan shlita; Admor Rabbi Yisrael Hager of Vizhnitz Bnei Brak shlita. Rabbi Zeev Feldman, Av Beit Din of Kahal Tora Etz Hayyim Chatam Sofer and member of the Badatz in London shlita; Rabbi Eliezer David Friedman, rabbi of the Belz-Mechenovka chassidus in London; Rabbi Menachem Mendel Mundrer, the Admor of Kasov-Jerusalem; Rabbi Mordechai Ganut, author of Luach Davar.