<<Shimon Akiva Ber ben Yoseph.>> Avodath Borei, Mahadura Bathra [prayers for weekdays, Sabbath and Holidays]. With an extensive Kabbalistic commentary.

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<<Shimon Akiva Ber ben Yoseph.>> Avodath Borei, Mahadura Bathra [prayers for weekdays, Sabbath and Holidays]. With an extensive Kabbalistic commentary.

<<FIRST EDITION>> of full commentary. ff. 4, 106. Ex-library, browned. Contemporary elaborately tooled calf over heavy wooden boards, two metal hinges but lacking clasps, rubbed. 4to. Vinograd, Sulzbach 66.

Sulzbach: Aaron ben Uri Lipman 1707

Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $900
The author was the son-in-law of R. Feitel Isserles of Vienna. After the expulsion of the Jews from Vienna, he served as Rabbi of Zeckendorf. At the time of this publication he served as Rabbi of Gunzhausen. The leading Rabbis in their approbations entitle the author as "Sar Ha-Torah" (Prince of the Torah). The first edition which was published in Wilhermsdorf, 1688 contained only 52 leaves and covered only weekday prayers and the Sabbath eveing prayer, the present edition contains twice as much material. <<Bound with:>> Chaim ben Moshe Lifschitz. <<Sepher Derech Chaim>> [Kabbalistic commentary to the prayers, with other novellae]. ff. 2, 98. [Vinograd, Sulzbach 61]. Sulzbach, 1703.