Sidur HaGra BeNiglah UbeNistar. With super-commentaries Sha’ar Naphtali and Imrei Shepher by Naphtali Hertz HaLevi of Jaffa.

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Sidur HaGra BeNiglah UbeNistar. With super-commentaries Sha’ar Naphtali and Imrei Shepher by Naphtali Hertz HaLevi of Jaffa.

Two parts bound in one volume. Additional opening title in red and blue. ff. 6, 164, (1), 160. Stained in places. Modern boards. 4to. Vinograd, Gr’a 480.

Jerusalem: Hari’n Levy 1895-98

Est: $300 - $500

Followers of the Gaon were counted among the relatively few Ashkenazic immigrants to Eretz Israel in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This would cement the outsize influence the Gaon’s prayer rites would have on Ashkenazic practice in Israel today.