Sepher MaHaRI”L [customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite].

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MOELLIN, YA’AKOV.

Sepher MaHaRI”L [customs for the entire year according to Aschkenazi rite].

The Rabbi Josef Tzvi Halevi Dunner copy with his stamp at end, along with other earlier signatures. Trimmed, lightly stained and dampwrinkled. Modern maroon calf housed in fitted slip-case. 4to. Vinograd, Lublin 47.

Lublin: Klonimus ben Mordechai Jaffe 1590

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

<<Rare. This Lublin edition is far more scarce than the First Edition (Sabbioneta 1556).>> The most important source for ritual customs (minhagim), both within and without the synagogue, as accords to Aschkenazi rite. The work paints a most faithful picture of the religious and social life of the German Jews in the 14th- and 15th-centuries. Born in Cologne, Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913-2007) found safety in England following the rise of German Nazism. He grew to become head of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, the umbrella organisation of Anglo-Chareidi Jewry, a position he occupied for decades.