Siddur and Tehillim of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – With Testimony of his Assistant that the Rebbe Recited ...

Siddur and Tehillim of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – With Testimony of his Assistant that the Rebbe Recited Tehillim from it Each Morning
Siddur Tefilla Yeshara V'Keter Nehora HaShalem, Sefard rite, following Nusach HaAri. Bound with the book of Tehillim. [Föhrenwald: Yoffe, ca. 1946 – photocopy of the Przemyśl 1929 edition, with minor additions and omissions. The book of Tehillim is a photocopy from a different source]. Separate title pages for Tehillim and for Kuntress Netiv Mitzvotecha.
Comprehensive siddur, following the Nusach Sefard of the Siddur Radvil, with many kabblistic and Chassidic commentaries and additions.
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar prayed from this siddur and Tehillim in his home over a long period of time. The front pastedown bears the testimony of one of the Rebbe's assistants, who in his youth assisted the Rebbe (as "hoiz bocher") for about two years and received the siddur as a wedding gift: " The Rebbe prayed from this siddur in his home over a long period of time and recited Tehillim from it each morning. I merited hearing him pour out his soul while reciting Tehillim in the course of the two years I assisted him, and I received this siddur from the Rebbe's home before my marriage in Sivan 1960. Yoel Gantz".
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), one of the greatest leaders of his generation, president of the Eda HaCharedit and leader of American Orthodox Jewry, one of the founding pillars of Chassidic Jewry after the Holocaust. Born in Sighet (Sighetu Marmației), he was the son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov, and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev, who both served as rabbis of Sighet and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. After marrying the daughter of Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Polaniec, he settled in Satmar (Satu Mare) and taught Torah and Chassidut to an elite group of disciples and followers. He served as rabbi of Irshava, Karaly (Carei; from 1925) and Satmar (Satu Mare; from 1934), managing in each of these places a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. During the Holocaust, he was rescued by the Kastner Train, and after a journey through Bergen-Belsen and Eretz Israel, he reached the United States, where he established the largest Chassidic group in the world – Satmar Chassidut, until today the dominant faction in American Orthodox Jewry. He served as president of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem. A leading opponent of Zionism and of the founding of the State of Israel, he zealously led crucial battles for the preservation of the unique character of the Jewish people and its holiness, fearful for the honor of the Torah and the future of faithful Jewry. He was renowned as an exceptionally charitable person; his door was open to the poor and his ear attentive to the needy from every stream of the Jewish people. An outstanding Torah scholar, he responded to many halachic queries, and his writings were published in dozens of books: VaYoel Moshe, Responsa Divrei Yoel, Divrei Yoel on the Torah and more.
(Lacking the first of the two title pages). [2], 5-18 pages, [2], 36 pages, 5-464 pages, 24, [1] pages; 88, 40 pages. 20.5 cm. Brittle paper. Fair-good condition. Stains. Tears. Open tears to several leaves (repaired with paper), with significant loss of text – these damaged leaves are mainly in the following places: Seder Tikkunei Shabbat, Seudah Shelishit and Seder Havdalah; Chapter 107 of Tehillim. New binding.