Sha’ar Hashamayim [prayers throughout the year]. With Psalms, Biblical readings and Ma’amadoth. Compiled with commentary by Isaiah Hurwitz (the SHeLa”H Hakodosh)

AUCTION 2 | Tuesday, June 03rd, 1997 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal

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Sha’ar Hashamayim [prayers throughout the year]. With Psalms, Biblical readings and Ma’amadoth. Compiled with commentary by Isaiah Hurwitz (the SHeLa”H Hakodosh)

FIRST EDITION. Attractive additional engraved title, two divisional title pages. ff.(2),335, 139, 130, (1),52. Stained in places, lower corner lightly worn through use, contemporary blind-tooled sheep over wooden boards, rebacked, extremeties scuffed, lacking clasps, thick 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1114

Amsterdam: Aaron de Salomon Antones 1717

Est: $13,000 - $15,000

PRICE REALIZED $12,000

A handsome copy of this celebrated prayer-book with a Kabbalistice commentary by the “Holy SHeLa”H. Prepared for publication by the SHeLa”H’s great-grandson, Abraham, it includes his comments as well as those of his grandfather, Shabbetai Sheftel. Rabbi Joel Sirkes (The Ba”CH), one of Poland’s most outstanding Talmudists, famously attests in his lead approbation (f.2v) the certainty that all prayers invoked from the SHeLaH Prayer-Book will most assuredly be fulfilled