SEDER TEKIATH SHOFAR [Kabbalistic prayers and Kavanoth for the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashana. with Tashlich on final two leaves]

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Lot 260
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SEDER TEKIATH SHOFAR [Kabbalistic prayers and Kavanoth for the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashana. with Tashlich on final two leaves]

16 leaves. Large, neat square Italian script with marginal kavanot in a smaller square script. Owners signature and institutional stamp. 4to.

Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,000
The kabbalistic marginal kavanoth cite the anonymous Sefer Ha-Cheshek (a lengthy citation) and R. Menachem Azariah of Fano. With signature and inscription of the famous bookseller R. Yosef Chaim Biegeleisen of Oshpitsin (Auschwitz) to his friend the ”gaon and tzadik...chassida u’perisha” R. Michoel Ha-Cohen (Forshlager), author of Torath Michoel. Rabbi Forshlager, a longtime resident of Baltimore, Maryland, was a disciple of R. Abraham Bornstein of Sochatchev, and one of the greatest Talmudists of his day. He left a profound influence on the rabbinical leaders of the next generation such as Rabbi Mordecai Gifter, rosh yeshivah of Telz-Wickliffe, and Rabbi Shimon Schwab of Kahal Adath Jeshurun, Rabbi Breuer’s community of Washington Heights, New York.