Tephiloth Beth Yisrael [prayers for the entire year]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With translation into Dutch by A.D. Lutomirski. Includes Techinoth.

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Tephiloth Beth Yisrael [prayers for the entire year]. According to Aschkenazi rite. With translation into Dutch by A.D. Lutomirski. Includes Techinoth.

With blank sheets interspersed throughout, occasionally containing manuscript comments and corrections in Dutch. pp. 646, 2. Contemporary marbled boards, with ties, backstrip detached. Thick 8vo.

Amsterdam: I. Levisson 1857

Est: $300 - $500

A prayer-book with a section intended especially for women. The translator was the headmaster of the Jewish school of Rotterdam. According to the approbation of Joseph Isaacson, Chief Rabbi of Rotterdam, this translation excels in its clarity finding the true meaning behind the prayers. In his scholarly footnotes, the translator cites such scholars as W. Heidenheim and R. Yaakov Tzvi Meklenberg.