Sha’arei Rachamim [selected prayers, with mystical meditations].

Auction 94 | Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 11:00am

Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx

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Sha’arei Rachamim [selected prayers, with mystical meditations].

Edited by Benjamin Kimchi. ff. (7), 146. << * Bound with:>> Sha’arei Ratzon [Passover Hagadah]. With Kabbalistic commentary by Chaim ben Abraham HaKohen of Aleppo. ff. 56. Two important Kabbalistic works bound in one volume. Both <<FIRST EDITIONS.>> Titles within architectural arch. Wide margins. With marginal notations. Variously worn and stained, few taped repairs, opening two leaves remargined, Modern morocco. 4to. Vinograd, Salonika 243 and 244.

Salonika: 1741

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

<<The very first Sidur according to the custom of R. Yitzchak Luria (Nusach Ari).>> Bound with: <<The very first Kabbalistic Hagadah.>> The rise of the Kabbalah of the Ar’i led many in Kabbalistic circles to compile prayer-books containing specialized Lurianic meditations and esoteric rites. These texts circulated in manuscript among differing regional circles of Kabbalists. The very first printed Lurianic prayer-book was this Sha’arei Rachamim which accords to Sephardic rite. The Ar’i himself did not leave behind any prescribed prayer-book, leaving his followers to compile their own works based on his teachings. This took place in the Ashkenazic and Sephardic spheres alike. Thus Chabad’s ‘Siddur Tehilath Hashem’ and the prayer-book issued by R. Sar Shalom Sharabi of Jerusalem, are both heralded as Nusach Ari.