Taharah [prayers recited during the ritual washing of the dead]

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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Lot 280

(LITURGY).

Taharah [prayers recited during the ritual washing of the dead]

Square Hebrew characters provided with nikud. Instructions in Judeo-German pp. (1), 10. Black ink on coarse paper. Calf, scuffed. Small folio

(Germany): 19th-century

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

The procedure for Jewish purification of the dead is especially ritualized and detailed, a separate verse is recited while attending to each part of the body