Sha’ar HaShamayim [prayers throughout the year]. With Kabbalistic commentary of R. Isaiah Halevi Horowitz (SheLa”H HaKadosh)

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Sha’ar HaShamayim [prayers throughout the year]. With Kabbalistic commentary of R. Isaiah Halevi Horowitz (SheLa”H HaKadosh)

FIRST EDITION. Attractive additional engraved title. Divisional titles for Tehillim and Ma'amadoth. One volume containing: Prayers; Torah Readings, Selichoth & Yotzroth, Psalms and Ma'amadoth. Text in vocalized square Hebrew characters in center with wrap-around commentary in Rashi script. Tailpieces. Previous owners signatures on engraved title-page in a minute hand. ff. (2), 335,139, 130, 52. Browned with some staining. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, new marbled endpapers, rubbed. Thick 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1114

Amsterdam: Aaron de Salomon Antones 1717

Est: $35,000 - $40,000

PRICE REALIZED $40,000

FIRST EDITION OF THE CELEBRATED SHELA”H SIDDUR. A WIDE-MARGINED COPY. A handsome copy of this important 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. The great halachist Rabbi Joel Sirkes (the Ba”CH) attests in his lead approbation: “I have no doubt that whomsoever prays from this Siddur, his prayers will not go unanswered.” Indeed the great mystics were wont to pray utilizing the Siddur Shela”h, one example being the founder of Chabad Chassidism, R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi. See Ch. M. Heilman, Beith Rabbi (Berdichev, 1900), f.1v.