Tikun Hamidoth [Midnight and midday devotional prayers]

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Lot 214

(SABBATIANA)

Tikun Hamidoth [Midnight and midday devotional prayers]

ff.68. Title and f.8 expertly repaired affecting some text. Contemporary calf,rubbed, deatched.12mo Vinograd Mantua 249. G. Scholem, Sabatai Sevi, p. 510.

Mantua: Yehudah Shmuel Prusha 1667

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

This order is different than the standard version. According to Scholem this tract follows the order instituted by Shabbatai Tzvi’s “prophet” Nathan of Gaza.The Sabbathians could not recite the standard version, as in their opinion the Shechinah is no longer in exile with the advent of Shabbetai Tzvi.The poem on f. 53 was comosed by Yosef Karmy Davidson, Otzar,.p.281, no. 6152. With addendum Derech Yashar on Repentence.