Bidspirit auction | Sefer Tehillim, with Deglei Hodayah

Sefer Tehillim, with Deglei Hodayah VeHaMitzvah and Mamtakei Yehudah – Piotrkow 1899–1901 – copy of the grandfather of the Rebbe of Boyan, shlit”a. - Tehillim with Deglei Hodayah VeHaMitzvah The Tehillim of Rabbi Yosef Breyer, rabbi of Ștefănești and grandfather of the Rebbe of Boyan, shlit”a! Sefer Tehillim, with Deglei Hodayah VeHaMitzvah and Mamtakei Yehudah, with the order of Ma’amadot and the prayer-book “Kol Yaakov.” Piotrkow 1899 – second edition The Book of Psalms, surrounded by the compositions Deglei Hodayah VeHaMitzvah and Mamtakei Yehudah—expositions on the 613 commandments and the seven Rabbinic commandments—by Rabbi Yehudah Yudel Landau of Jerusalem, slaughterer and close attendant of the Holy One of Israel of Ruzhin and of his son, the Elder Rebbe of Sadigura. With the order of Ma’amadot and the prayer-book “Kol Yaakov.” Important approbations: the Rebbes Rabbi Yisrael of Sadigura, Rabbi Yoḥanan of Rahmestrovka, Rabbi Yitzḥak of Skvira, Rabbi Avraham of Trisk, the gaon Rabbi Avraham Sha’ag, the Dvash, the rabbis of Berdichev, and others. Additional detailed title page in blue ink. Several leaves are missing at the end of the siddur. On the first title page is written in large red letters “Jerusalem, ” giving the impression that it was printed there; but earlier in small letters it is written that it has the approbation of the Rabbis of Jerusalem. [See below in the owner’s inscription.] On the second title page it is written that it was printed in Piotrkow. The holy Rebbe of Satmar wrote for the facsimile edition: “Indeed, this Book of Tehillim needs no approbation at all, for great ones and tzaddikim of earlier generations have already given their approval to it, and the Rebbe… the author of Kedushat Yom Tov, of blessed memory, also recited Tehillim from this Book of Tehillim with the 613 commandments, and I am certain that buyers will flock to it.” Owners: At the top of the first leaf is written: “This Jerusalem Tehillim belongs to the rabbi of this holy community of Ștefănești, our master Rabbi Yosef Breyer, Ștefănești–Botoșani.” Rabbi Yosef Breyer was born in Ruzhin to the city’s rabbi, Rabbi Mordechai Dov Breyer, in 1894. In his youth he already knew the entire Talmud by heart. In 1922 he was appointed rabbi of Bivolari. After the passing of his father in 1928 he moved to fill his place in the rabbinate of the city of Ștefănești, and was a close confidant of the Rebbe Rabbi Avraham Mattisyahu Friedman. He sat at his right at the tishen, and was honored to speak at the gatherings held on the anniversaries of the Rebbe’s passing. He also led the prayers during the Days of Awe. He sat on rabbinical courts together with the Rebbe’s nephew, Rabbi Menachem Naḥum Friedman of Itskan. After the passing of the Rebbe of Ștefănești in 1933, Rabbi Yosef established the Beit Avraham Ștefănești yeshivah, serving as its rosh yeshivah and delivering classes to its students. Among his students there was the holy Rebbe of Ribnitz. After the Holocaust he moved to the United States and was appointed rabbi of the synagogue “Tiferet Avraham Mattisyahu of the Romanian Immigrants” in the Bronx, New York. In 1964 he moved to the Land of Israel and settled in Haifa, and in 1972 he moved to Jerusalem, where he passed away on the Sabbath, 16 Tevet 1980, and was buried on the Mount of Olives near his mechutan, the Rebbe Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo of Boyan, father-in-law of his son, Rabbi M. M. Breyer, father of the Rebbe of Boyan, shlit”a.