Festival Prayer Book According to Yemenite rite. Includes services for High Holydays, Sukoth, Hoshana Raba, Simchath Torah. Also with Selichoth, Tikun Rosh Chodesh, Chanukah, Purim.
AUCTION 73 |
Thursday, June 22nd,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 296
(LITURGY)
Festival Prayer Book According to Yemenite rite. Includes services for High Holydays, Sukoth, Hoshana Raba, Simchath Torah. Also with Selichoth, Tikun Rosh Chodesh, Chanukah, Purim.
Yemen: 18th century
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,000
R. Yachya Tzalach [Salih] (1715-1805), Rabbi of San’a, known by the acronym Mahari”tz, is considered the supreme halachic authority of Yemen. He did not receive a salary for his Rabbinic duties and earned his livelihood as a scribe.
The Yemenite scholar Y. Ratzaby states in a note appended to this Machzor that the marginalia herein correspond to the commentary “Etz Chaim” by R. Yahya Tzalach. Ratzaby surmises that the marginalia are an earlier version of his commentary and believes that they are in the hand of the author, as it was his custom to add marginal notes to the works he transcribed. See Y. Ratzaby, Shevuth Teiman (1945) pp. 100-17.