Sepher Yamim Noraim [prayers for the High Holy Days]. With Selichoth for the month of Elul. Sephardic rite.

The extensive marginal notes contain commentaries, additional customs and Kabbalistic kavanoth. Cites Chemdath Yamim as a source for eating apples dipped in honey (ff. 86 b). Cites Kitzur Shelah on f. 32b. Cites piyut by Aaron Alidi, “Hifliu Eitzah” dated 1742 (f. 25b) - not in Davidson. Cites piyut by Chaim Modai (f.93a), with additions and variances from Davidson, (Hashem Chesed, Vol I, no. 823). R. Chaim Modai was one of the great scholars and Dayanim of Constantinople. He emigrated to Safed and was later sent as an emissary to help rebuild the city after the earthquake of 1759. He visited Prague and corresponded with the Noda BeYehuda. In addition to his responsa Chaim Ad Haolam which were published posthumously in Ismir (1879-82), he was known to write poetry. An alphabetical poem against cigarette smoking was later published in J. Benveniste, Avodah Tama, (Jerusalem, 1903).