Seder Tephiloth Kol ha-Shanah [Prayer Book for the Entire Year]

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Seder Tephiloth Kol ha-Shanah [Prayer Book for the Entire Year]

Replete with naïve colored artwork. Title within elaborate decorative border including tree, flower and bird motifs. Yemenite square rabbinic writing. Some prayers include nikud (vowel points). Scribe: Sliman Fasil ff. (252). Wormed with virtually no loss of text. Contemporary calf, rebacked with 4 raised bands on spine.Thick 4to

Yemen: 1848

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

This collection of prayers for the entire year includes some distinctively Yemenite compositions, such as an elegy for Tishah be-Av composed by MaHaRI”TZ [Mori Yichya Tsalach] (1715-1805), author of the important halachic work Etz Chaim. An anomaly of this Siddur is the correspondence of the sixth “hakafah” (circumambulation) to Pinchas. On Simchath Torah it is customary to circle the synagogue seven times. Each circling corresponds to a sephirah of the Kabbalah and to a biblical personality. Generally, the sixth circle is connected to Joseph (Yesod or “Foundation”). However in our prayer book, this sixth hakafah is surprisingly assigned to Pinchas