First Tehillim Printed in the Land of Israel! Segulah Book Printed by Request of the Kedushat Levi!

First Tehillim Printed in the Land of Israel! Segulah Book Printed by Request of the Kedushat Levi!

Chassidic Tehillim with Zohar commentary. Segulah book printed in sanctity by Rabbi Gershon Margaliot, primary disciple of the Be'er Mayim Chaim, by explicit request of the Kedushat Levi of Berdichov. Yisrael Beck Press. Safed, 1833.

This is the first book of Tehillim printed in the Land of Israel. It opens with an important and lengthy introduction by the author Rabbi Gershon Margaliot, av beit din of Skalit and one of the most prominent disciples of the Be'er Mayim Chaim. It describes the segulah of the first Tehillim printed in the Holy Land, directed towards the gates of Heaven. He also writes that his in-law, 'Defender of the Jewish people' - Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, visited him at home, where he saw the manuscript and became exuberant, "revealing to him what was hidden in his heart" with his request that he gift him this manuscript so that he could print it. The rabbi of Skalit replied to the Kedushat HaLevi that "my soul desires that it be me who ascends to this place of this alter to print it." The printer, Rabbi Yisrael Beck, also hints in his foreword to the segulah aspect of this book: "Books printed here in the Land, especially the Tehillim with Zohar, held in one's home and in his satchel shall save him from distress, damage and fright ... Hashem will pour endless blessing upon him."

Rabbi Gershon Margaliot [d. 1 Tammuz 1838] was one of the most prominent disciples of the Admo"r Rabbi Chaim of Chernowitz, author of Be'er Mayim Chaim and in-law of the 'defender of the Jewish people' - Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, author of Kedushat Levi, who also stayed at the former's home, as detailed in his important introduction to this Sefer Tehillim. Rabbi Gershon was a son-in-law of the Admo"r of Zlotchov, Rabbi Yissachar Ber, author of Mevaser Tzeddek. He ascended together with him to the Holy Land and settled in Safed.

[4], 151 leaves. Lacking final leaf. 14 cm.

The book has been professionally restored and rebound with a leather binding. Overall fine condition. Worming marks with slight blemishes to the text.