Complete Set of Chok Le'Yisrael - Chernovitz, 1850/1852 - Contains a Long Hassidic Preface by Rabbi Yosef Landau

Complete Set of Chok Le'Yisrael - Chernovitz, 1850/1852 - Contains a Long Hassidic Preface by Rabbi Yosef Landau
Set of five volumes , Chok Le'Yisrael Bereshit-Devarim. The Printing Press of Reb Meshulam Heller. Chernovitz, 1850-1852. Contains all the title pages. At the beginning of the volume, a long Hassidic preface by Rabbi Yosef Landau was printed.
The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book lists only three volumes! In addition, it should be noted that in some of the volumes of the National Library, the year of printing is noted on the title page. However, in the copy before us, it is not noted.
First Section: Chok Le'Yisrael, Sefer Bereshit, Yosef La'Chok. The year and place of printing is not noted. The inscription: "In Slavita" is emphasized.
Second Section: Chok Le'Yisrael, Sefer Shemot, Yosef La'Chok. Prepared for printing by Rabbi Meshulam Heller in Chernovitz, 1850.
Third Section: Chok Le'Yisrael, Sefer Vayikra, Yosef La'Chok. The year and place of printing is not noted. The inscription: "In Slavita" is emphasized.
Fourth Section: Chok Le'Yisrael, Sefer Bamidbar, Yosef La'Chok. The year and place of printing is not noted. The inscription: "In Slavita" is emphasized.
Fifth Section: Chok Le'Yisrael, Sefer Devarim, Yosef La'Chok. Prepared for printing by Rabbi Meshulam Heller in Chernovitz, 1850.
[See more: Y. Yosef, Ha'Dfus Ha'Ivri Be'Chernovitz - Areshet, 3, 1961, pp. 297, no. 29]
The writer of the long Hassidic preface at the beginning of the volume is Rabbi Yosef landau who was Av Beit Din of Jassy and authored the 'Birkat Yosef' Responsa and other books. His history was written in the book 'Toldot Yosef' which was printed in Berditchev in 1908. The book refers to his Hassidic genealogy "Rabbi Yosef landau … is the son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Av Beit Din of Bahslov (Russia) the son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch the son of the holy, divine rabbi, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Ber". Rabbi Menachem Mendel Ber was a disciple of the Ba'al Shem Tov.
Condition: Varying. Good. With the bindings.